Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire.

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1818
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Credit: Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iher of our Chancellor, a gentleman against whose spoUess integrity it is impossible for one moment to entertain the slightest suspicion. But, how came that ticket in his bosom 1 Who placed it there .' Conjecture ran on various subjects: some said one thing, some an- other; but it was finally concluded, that some person, for a fraudu- lent purpose, had obtained possession of that number, and wishing it to be called on that day, had, intending to throw it into the lap of the manager next to the wheel, missed hi? aim, and thrown it into the bosom of Mr. Kent! But, lap or bosom, no malter how it was done, or for what fraudulent purpose, alarming as it was that such things should be, it passed off like all its fellow-accidents, only emboldening villany to make new attempts; but producing no at- tempts towards a reform in the mqde of conducting our Lottery wheels. We shall also give, in evidence, in the course of this defence, that, at another Lottery, ten tickets were said to have been misting out of the number wheel during the whole drawing, until the last day. Those tickets had been found in a crack of the floor; and what is more, Gentlemen, they were found by Mr. Sickles, aswill ap- pear from his own oath before the late Grand Jury. And what is still more, it will appear that none of the managers ever heard any thing about the strange affair until it came from that oath of Mr. Sickles. And worse and worse, Gentlemen, it will appear, that no one but Mr. Sickles himself can inform us how those tickets were replaced in the wheels. And is it to be believed, that all this can happen, connected with the dreams of Judah, the insu- rance, the successful hits, the soiled tickets, and all the foul play connected with them, and yet Mr. Baldwin be criminal for daring to say there is .swindling in the management of our Lotteries some- where ? Ten tickets in a crack! How came they there ? How came Mr. Sickles to be the very fortunate finder of those tickets ? How came it, that a circumstance so very extraordinary, and so im- portant, was carefully concealed from the managers of our Lottery ? Be assured, Gentlemen, that it is no common accident, which takes ten tickets out of the number-wheel of a Lottery, and places them in a crack of a stage floor, under a carpet, and near the seat which Mr. Sickles.occupies at the drawing of the Lottery. If he is faith- ful, how could such things happen ? If he is honest, why conceal them from the managers ? But, Gentlemen, when you shall be in- formed, as our evidence will show, that the numbers of those tickets were known to Mr. Judah, and others out-doors; that prophecies, dreams, and inspirations were abroad in this community about them ; and still more, when you shall learn that those very numbers could not be called by Sickles, because a watch was very unexpectedly placed at his elbow, and a ring of men formed around him to pre- vent expected frauds concerning those very numbers ; you will no longer be at a loss k> account for tickets being soiled, as if worn in the pocket; and the whole mystery of Mr. Judah's prophetic dreams, and splendid successes, is wholly unravelled, and satisfactorily ex-