The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-22
SEIZURES.
CCnfiscutiOns in Baltimore for Violating the
Revenue Laws.

Revenue Laws.
From the Baltimore american June q.
We have known for several days past that one
OF the most important seizures ever made under
the Internal Revenue laws has been effected by
the revenue officers in this supervision district:
but at the request of the officers having the
matter in charge, we have until now deferred
any reference to it. The particulars of this
seizure are as follows:-About two weeks since
upon information received at the Office of
the Supervisor of Internal Revenue, Mr.. Alex
ander Fulton, in this city, that officer proceeded
to make an inspection of the large establishment
known as Ulman's distilery, situated at South
Side, Baltimore county, on the Washington
turnpike, short distance south of Gwynn's
Falls Bridge. The result of this inspection was
the issue of an order by the Supervisor to the
Collector of the Fifth District, General Stanton,
to seize all the property found at this locality,
including the buildings, machinery, and appa-
ratus, and about 200O gallons of rye whisky,
the value of the entire property being, at
moderate computation, not less than 1900, 900.
1t was discovered that through the connivance
or culpable neglect of the Government officers
until lately in charge of this distllery, the
most ample facilities had been afforded to the
owner of this distillery to perpetrate
wholesale frauds upon the revenue. The
various sections of the Revenue law regulating
distIlleries, and the imposition and collection of
taxes on distilled spirits, had been violated al
most without exception; and without entering
into particulars, which will be developed in the
course of the legal proceedings ere long to take
place before the United States District Court in
this city, we may say, generally, that many
strange tricks of the whisky trade have been
discovered. The law regulating and providing
for the strict custody of the product of the still
by the Government officials the gauger and store
keeper assigned to duty at the distllery had been
utterly ignored and set at defiance The els
tern-room and warehouse, which the law and
regulations presume to be always under the close
custody of Government locks, in the charge
ofstorekeeper and gauger, had been suffered to
be in complete control of the dstier, who
seems to have set up compounding or rectify-
ing establishment in the latter apartment,
whereby in addition to arrangements for cheat
ing the innocent consumers of new old rye into
the delusion that what they are drinking is of
almost venerable age, by infusions of peach
juice, oak shavings, etc, the most brilliant faci
| lities were also afforded for defrauding the
| Government of large share of the tax due
| from the products of the still This
| immense distillery is the largest and most com
| plete in this section of the country, capa-
| BILE of producing not less than two thousand
| five hundred gallons of whisky per diem. Some
| idea of the magnitude and extent of the esta-
blishment and its capacities may be inferred
| from the fact that the owner has just completed
| a new bonded warehouse, capable of storing not
less than twelve thousand barrels, which is also
| included in the property now under seizure
The trial growing out of this seizure, for the for
| feiture of the immense property and the recoV-
| cry of numerous penalties and fines charged to
| have been incurred by the proprietor of this dis
| tillery, A. j. Ulman, will doubtless be one of
| the most important that has ever taken place
| under the Revenue law.