Portal:Lindauer & Co.
Lindauer & Co. had various functions over the years, from a tobacconist, to selling illegal lottery tickets (numbers game), to providing American Civil War substitutes. The "collectors" charged with not returning their monies, they were collecting debts for the illegal lottery, the "numbers game". Both Louis Julius Lindauer (1838-1915) and Charles Frederick Lindauer (1836-1921) had been previously arrested for their participation in the "numbers game". Charles Frederick Lindauer in 1879 and Louis Julius Lindauer in 1870.
Works about
[edit]- News from Jersey City (1889)
- "August Mueller, who was the collector in this city for Lindauer & Co., tobacconists, was sent to jail this morning for contempt of court. His employers were dissatisfied with his returns and had a receiver appointed to examine his accounts. Mueller refused to surrender his books and his arrest followed."
- Alleged Grand Larceny (1884)
- "C. B. Hookan [sic] was arraigned this morning before Justice Naeher on complaint of Julius Landauer [sic], a cigar dealer at No. 337 East Fiftieth street, New York, who charged that recently while Hookan was employed by him as an agent, he collected about $100 from various customers and appropriated the money to his own use. The charge under the new Penal Code amounts to grand larceny. The Justice held Hookan to appear and answer on Wednesday."