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Camden Daily Courier clipping, May 24, 1895: Some Severe Sentences, on Judge Vroom's sentencing of lottery policy dealers including Harriet Smith
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Some Severe Sentences

Judge Vroom of the Quarter Sessions Court gave policy sellers the full penalty of the law on May 24, 1895, sentencing Mrs. Harriet Smith of 750 Federal Street to one year in the penitentiary despite Lawyer Harry Scovel's appeal for clemency.

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