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Courier-Post clipping, July 4, 1941: 4-Month Sentence for Number Writer, on Joseph Wallace's lottery conviction
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4-Month Sentence for Number Writer

Joseph Wallace of Merchantville was sentenced to four months in the county jail after pleading guilty to engaging in a lottery, having been arrested by county detectives at Thirty-fourth and Federal streets with numbers slips in his pockets. Judge Clifford A. Baldwin disputed defense attorney Carl Kisselman's claim that Wallace had been in the numbers business only two weeks.

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