, 1875-11-21

and each one ia debited with the number Of saJ
Ions !: receives, and credited NTH those it ship.
aax 1ne'' rSsn rs1e no 10 such thing As crooks
the dumps would be empty and her
would be no whisky in the rectifyiue-hous,
But, unfortunately for somebody, there i
crooked whisky in she world, aud it mast, th,
diasll'ers think, be put upon the market, IN;
means Of getting it out Of their vats and On th.
market The operation Of cartng ghisky bg
night or br fraud from the dis.iIlsf's yine-rnnr
to tho 1ectihe1s yats is one that reotire,
t1'o more secrecy than craft, and one which the
will help. One would think that when the . Wis.
ky Was in the distiller's cistarns it VAS juss a.
far as ever from being put On tho market for
! sale-and 30 it is il everybody were honest. Ma
rect1hercan take out more than hs has nut in
onless oy 1raud and hence when, b5 the con-
nlvance OF Illicit dia.lllers he has gotten cer-
tain amount into his vats he nuat rssort In fr.nd
! to get it out. 'A1''
HERE Is WHERE THE CORRUPT oAro1n
comes IN. he is furnished with book OF STANDS
rom ne revenue office, and each stamp has
stub ~htch must be flied out At the same time
80 the stamp, and afterwards sworn to br H.
Gauger, and returned to the Collectors offica
As check on this, tbs rectfer must keen 4 hoax
Of all the liquor be ships. and return and swear
10 tnat. Ii tho daugers stubs coincide with the
rectitleza returns it is proof that thoy are hott
ri*ht, OF else that both are agreed in be;nr
wrong. 49, D'1os
The steal consists in shipping a quantity Of
liquor and properly gauging it On the barrels,
out making the lie on the stubs and returns.
:, any one OF the cases above noted will shor how
this was done in Messrs. Ford, Oliver & Co.'s
house. By means Of this system the rectifier il
enabled to get nd of the crooked in his yats
and them ptoceedsto whsck up with the distiIer
who made i. and passed itover to him, This az
plains the CLAUSE in the indictment which 1afers to
fH yttttt
removed from the d1stiiery. The fact that an
oVerplus Of whisky is in the vats 1s pretty clear
evidence that it is crooked, az there would be mo
possible inducement to put straight whisky into
the yats illegally: The correspondence Of the
ts BOOKS OF the rectiier with the stubs OF
dsnce Of conspiracy. because T It the
Gauger had sworn to lie the
rect1her in whose interest the perjury was com
n4tted would have oosn pretty certain to have
Kho*n aoont It; and in fact he must have known
about it. else be could not hare made his false
account agree With the Gaugers false stamp
stuos.
TIE WAY TIE FRAUDS WE'RE o1scovEnEp
Is rather curious, and yet quito simple. It was
nAtura!ly supposed By the crooked rectiher and
the crooked dau2er that when the
shipped OH, that would be the end Of. the mat
ter. Aud 60 it would but for the detectives.
whom tho Government persists in calling Rey-
eoue Agents. These gentlemen did good deal
OF copying Inst summer, and not only copying
but comparing. Tor instance, they made !
transcript OF the books OF Hask1t & Hetel-
gesser, in indianapolis, and found that bus
1ness transactions had taken place with Ford
Oliver 4 Co., and perhaps dozen other houses,
and that Liquor had been reoeiyed from all OF
them. They made list Of the quAntitias and
aates on which goods had been received from
E.. 0. Co.,. together with the number Of the
stamp on each package, and came up to compare
their transcripts with the Chicago Arm's returns.
There Tho diminutiye African who had remained
u the fence was dragged OUT and when |
Il. d H.s books showed that they had IT,
:eived barrel (say stamp 144,244} With 80 |
,allons in it, and F., 0. i Co.'s books showed !
bat they had shipped z 144244 With ouly Il |
,al1one in 1t, it was concluded that something |
lad swelled, and tho Agents vent down aud !
lelay.
Aad Jet this is sketch Of only one nav. It |
nay pn5 to explain some others.