The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-18
Trial of Crooked whisky Men.

ucd to-day, the court room ptlnp p"chcu
with spectators. Edward Il. Frazer of
the firm OF Reeves Il Frazer, and former
Iy resident of Lafayette, Indiana, was
the first witness. lie testified that he
took charge of the distillery in May
1874. The firm was then making croo ed
whisky, and all the distillcr> were rails.
in. money for the revenue officers. On
one occasion joyce told HIM he must
have $1,000, which was raised, and an
other $4,000 was raised in May, 1873, at
the suggestion of Joseph Nj. Fitzroy,
chief clerk in the revenue collectors
Office. and gwen to him by the witness.
This was to prevent seizures, but they
were afterwards seized. A demand WAS
made for the return of this money,
IA it had not served the pur-
pose lor which il was raised, but
they never got 1t back; never paid
any money to Mcdonald, but did to
joyce; raised some money for revenue
agent named HOgue, who was here in
vestigating in 1874. Joyce repeatedly
told witness that every thing was all
right, and to 20 ahead, and he would
lngton of any trouble ahead. Mcdonald
told witness that FItIroy should
not not he blamed for The $1,000 which
hr received, and which the distlllers
wished returned, a. ii had given time 10
get their surplus.
Grass cxuminaiIOn-Wit illness rrItc?a-
ted the remarks made 10 MIN about the
money paid to Fiizroy. Witness pleaded
guilty on the advice of General Noble,
his attorney, and had never had con-
versation with District Attorney Dyer
about the matter.
Andrew Mcguire, an cmployc in the
postotiice at Cincinnati, and cousin OF
&. F. Megrue testified: Iran, Bevis X
Frazer's distillery in 1871 and ~ made
illicit whisky, perhaps one.third. Nc
Donald came to the diStillcry two or
three times and asked me how We were
getting along and il we made -mOre
crooked whisky; he said. Damn it, man
this thing amt paying, we must make
more GA croa,-eXamlnutlon he gave an
account of his connection ~ different
times with disUl,leries in Ono, but never
made crooked whisky IN them. lie came
here ut the instance of his cousin, Coz
Mrgrue t. talk up thu matter of Illicit dis
uling with BevIs; he was authorized
to tell Bcvis that Con Megruc had
ARRANGEMENTS with the revenue
officer, here, which would protect dis
tllle-s in making crooked whisky.
Rudolph UIrich, one ofthe most prom
Il
had talked several times with Joyce in
1871 about making crooked whisky, but
declined TO enter into an arrnn cement.
Subsequently, however, when he found
several other distiilcrs were in the Illicit
business. he went in and stayed till Octo-
Der. 1872; had several talks with Fltz.
row. and paid him money several times;
reported the amount of crooked whisky
made to Megrue and afterwards to FitZ-
roy; paid thirty andsthirty-fvc cents per
gallon. did not know where the money
went, and didn't care; raised money for
both Brashear aud Hogue.
: y. Thorpe testified that he was [.
:. ,torckocpcr ut various dlstillcrics here.
When at Peter Curran's distillcry, Me.
Donald instructed him to see tkat the
house was run to the strict letter of the
law, and when subsequently, he was at
ChotcauS. Mcdonald told him that if
any attempt at fraud was made, he would
seize the place. He said nothing about
other distillcrics While the witness was
at Chotcaus, Joyce told him that the
house had to make crooked whisky, and
the money must be paid TO him.
Joycc also gave some lnStrIc-
tions ms to the Aurora distilery,
after Jcwctt took it. Witness told
.Jovcc he thought such instructions
from him strange, after being directed to
the contrary by Mcdonald, and Joyce
told him to pay no attention to what
Mcdonald said. On one occasion, while
the witness WAS ct Chotesu's be (Joycel
sent for him, and he went To the Super
vi.or's office t. see him While there
Mcdonald asked him he was going 10
visit Chotcau's and if he found even II
technical violation of the law
he would seize the distlllery Choteau
had made payments to the ring before
that. but none we're then beng made.
Chotcau and the officers didn't seem to
srrce. While at Thompson distlI!cry
witness let the whisky ont Of the ware
house crooked on Fitzroys orders.
When at Jcwctt's, witness received
money from him; gave ii to Mcfall who
subsequently, gave il to Everest, who was
to give il to Joyce. About fifty barrels
of crooked whisky was made weekly at
,Jewctt's, at sixty gallons per barrel, be-
ing the assessment made at that dstiIl-
cry. For some weeks that amount
couid not be made, and
then Joyce would send for witness
and demand the reasons for delinquency
.Joyce told witness he was taking care OF
the officers at Washington, Babcock,
Avery and others and the
Money Was Received for 20 iticai
Purposes.
Witness always understood he ana the
others were working under orders from
hcadouarters. joyce would come round
and make special assessment, saying the
folks at Washington wanted money ana
must have it. He assessed witness one
hundred dollars occasionally for the folks
ut Washington. The parties named by
Jovce as receiving money here were
District Attorney Patrick. L. 5. Marsha
f Newcomb. General Mcdonald, Majoi
( Guuther. j. NJ. Fitzroy, Chlet Clerk II
the /. :, Collectors office, VIM. McGee
tine GloJs Democrat. and Constantine
Mcguire, [. ). Collector, Witness die
not know how the money was destribat
ed after it left kis hands; he never got
glimpse of it again.
Several other witnesses were eNamed,
tcstifying similarly.
The statement in q dispatch from Der
lin that the German Crown Prince pur
posed visiting the United States, /
denied. tSs now said that he never IN
tended making the trip.
The Poe monument was dedicated yes
terday afternoon in Baltimore with lm
.