The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-08
F. 0. lBOyd s. Co., Of New York, Impli-
Gated by an InfOrmer.
a PURCHASE OF THE CROOKED" FLUID
ThunderbOlts Expected 10 Fall in Phlla-
delphia and Brooklyn
RING SMASHING EXTRAORDINARY

OHlCAGo, jan Z, 1870
The evidence given to-day before the Grand Jury
BY far the most important yet elected While hitherto
only the well known political originators OF the
whiskey Ring Hesing, Rehm and Miller al.
feced by the testimony the revelations of to-day i'm
pcate Of the largest wholesale wniskey houses OF
this country, F. o. Boyd Co, of New York Golsen
the principal informer Of the government Of the we'll
known firm Of Golsen Eastman, was the witness who
made these disclosures He stated that no had I'M
Outstanding with =. o Boyd & Co., by which they
bought his 'crookcd" whiskey, paying him twenty
per gallon less than the ordinary market prices
Among other instances OF such sales he adduced one
the date OF which he gave with other memoranda
when he last spring sent 10 F. O. Boyd Co. $50 bar
rels Of Illicit highwines which, he afterward learned
Immediately transferred by them board a
transport lying in the harbor Golsen gave other
SPECIMENS or THESE TRANSACTIONS,
and stated that Boyd Co. bought deal OF this
s'crooked" whiskey, knowing that it "crooked,
from other distllers and rcctihers in ST Louis Chi
cago and other cities The other data furnished by
Gosen in regard to these transactions are still secrets
but it the intention of the authorities to have thts
New York firm indicted here and to try them before
Chicago Grand Jury.
Expressing my opinion OF the officials that
these $50 barrels would be but comparatively poor
case against Boyd Co., he replied, swell, we shall
probably find other details, but meanwhile these $50
will do perfectly well to send this New York firm OF
raseals TO State Prison. and that's what just pro-
pose do" In this connection it may be stated that
the government has evidence proving that Boyd & Co
and several other firms OF nearly equal standing
whose names have not yet leaked out, have kept
BOOKS,
one for the officers and the other for their
customers, and especially for rectiGers nom
whom they bought their ''crooked whiskey." On the
government books, "form 81 - they required to
enter every package OF spirits recoved and the deec
tves, who have transcripts Of these books, failed to
hnd the $50 barrels aud similar CROOKED" purchases
entered thereon, while the books of the railroad
pany by which they were shipped, the bills Of ading,
&C. conclusively prove that they were sent Golsens
evidence will undoubtedly LEAD the discovery OF other
wholesale liquor houses New York and other cities who
have made large profits out of Illicit whskey Golsen
also testified TO the payments made TO Jake Rehm by
him and other rectiners specifying the amounts dates
&C. and also the payments gaugers and sorekeepers
He frankly confessed that for time he was the
PArMAsTKR or TUB 'RISG,"
far as these petty officials were concerned he
gave full hist OF the ofgaugers and sorekeepers
who were in collision with the crooked dstillers
and which embraces many new names Among these
ia thai OF Hildreth, who "honorabeif Alder
man. and received his training for that post gauger
st the ;'g9oksdn Ali4ois disItlery Gqsen's sesti-
mony also bore upon County District Attorney Reed,
ex-Unite6 States District Attorney Ward and other
prominent officials and officials; but whether is
sufficient to indict then remains yet q be seen,
Another important portion of GolsenS testimony Vas
that in which he 'peached on" the rectihers who had
bought his CROOKED whiskey. This duplicates Kelley
4 KerYln Dickinson Leach, and almost every
other rectnying firm in Chicago He dwelt with
especial gusto the transactions between his house
aud Kelley 4 Kerwin because Kelley had openly
attacked HIM and denounced his treachery. he said
Kelley had always been anxious 10 buy cheap whskey
OF him. and one occasion frankly proposed to him TO
him the barrels with the stamps, and asked
him what he would then charge him for proof spirts
GOsen replied, Five cents under the highwne mar
ket, 4" and this basis he steadily supplied TO Keeey
Kerwin vast amount OF crooked" whskey. He
mentioned a hundred barrels as having been sold
them recently as last February, they returning to
him the empty barrels which he renlled and put them
down his books port
In giving Gosens testimony thus in full is proper
20 state that the other distlers accuse him Of being
A GRKAT LIAR
and say that be the most consummate rascal and
plant tool Of the Ring, and that he was generally
used In his capacity a recther for throwing the
crooked" vhiskey made by Chicago dstillers upon
the market His firm paid twenty cents per gallon be.
partly by night, barrels which never stamp, and
partly in the day time, In barrels which when emped
at sent back TO be reed before the stamps
we're removed or. again II was his custom to remove
the stamps and send them back and have dishonest
gauger put them upon heads Of new barrels Parker
r Mason and Ford, Oliver Co to have been
Gosen's greatest rivals in the business Golscn and
Eastman were said TO have put as many as 5000 bar
rels nearly 400 900 gallons OF this whskey upon the
market during some months, which must have yielded
. profit of $50 600 Probably half OF this the
officials and political manipulators The only witness
beside Gosen who was before the Grand Jury to-day
was Gauger Adoph Muller, whose testimony
important and the Grand Jury then adjourned till Mon
day The prosecuting officers wanted them to sit but
the 'Granders"that's what they loosely called
ted 60 home TO spend the Sabbath II looks
II no whiskey fraud indictments can be presented
before Tuesday and the trials are also set down for that
ANOTHER SPICY PIECE OF NEWS
this afternoon that Alderman and exGauger Gull
lerton whose also couples with these
frauds, is said 20 have mysterously disappeared Tho
government, as have been informed by an authority
max ng preparations for thorough overhaulng OF tho
Brooklyn and Philadelphia distleries, where some
gross frauds have been perpetrated and some able de-
tectives will 60 those cities before long 10 examine
personally into the matter The government Of
course will deny this intention, does not want TO
these gentlemen and enable them TO suppress
far possible the evidence Of their guilt: but all the
denals 70 the contrary Notwithstanding the above is
true.
MLwAuKKxs RICH RRvRIArioSs
Milwaukee Is enjoying some rich revelations The
Grand Jury there in will indct some important
The testimony already gwen before them impli-
Gates ex- Revenue Agent s J. Conkln in the
elusive manner, showing that Louis Rndskopf the rich
distller paid him monthly bride Of $500 Tor keeping
his eyes shut Unluckiy FOR Conkhn he only kept the
Office nine months that he only got 81 500 in all
The whskey trials in Milwaukee are set down for Jan.
uary IL.
COMING TRIALS OF THE OFFENDERS WHOSE
PROPERTY WAS SEIZED LAST MAY-wIIL THE
LIGHTNING STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADKLFHIA, Jan. !, 1876.
Internal Revenue supervisor Fulton OF tns oiy, mas
received Instructions from Secretary Brstow TO pro-
coed TO Chicago superntend the trials arising
from the seizures Of dstllerics &c, made by him in
that city In Nay last These trials will commence on
Tuesday next They involve the forfeiture Of large
amount Of property and the trial OF thirty persons,
who have already been indicted The indications
that most Of these parties will plead guilty and permit
Inc forfeiture OF their property by default but the Sec
retary directs the Supervisor 10 be prepared with tho
evidence iOr the prosecution OF each indicted as
no promise understanding has been will be made
looking TO a compromise Of any Of the cases They
10 be prosecuted vigorously. hr. Fulton Wal leave this
.iiv on Monday for Chicago, accompanied by witnesses
md ali the evidence collected 10 the East prove the
duplication Of packages, &c.
GUILTY PARTIES IN PHILADELPHIA
The Treasury Department has knowledge Of the tact
that several large liquor establishments OF This city
Rave been dealing in crooked whskey, and TIC most
Of them have been called upon 10 explain oy super.
Tsor Fulton This gentleman states that while there
q no douos tna' THESE houses nave oeen assllag 70