Numbers Game - Timeline

Timeline

  • 1860 Private lotteries flourish in large cities
  • 1894 Lexow Committee investigates
  • 1901 Albert J. Adams arrested in New York City
  • 1906 Albert J. Adams takes his own life
  • 1916 Peter H. Matthews dies in prison
  • 1964 New Hampshire starts the first modern US lottery

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