, 1876-05-14
ANOTHER D1yTnLBK.

Anton Junker was the next witness. He de-
posed. / have resided in Chicago since 1858,
end have been In the whisky business since 1853.
became connected with the Union Copper Dis
t1luy Company In 1863 We continued to run it
untn setzed in May, 1875. The property WINS sold
by the Government and forfeited. I was also
connected with rectifying establishment on
Kinxie street. I gave personal attention to the
business of the dfstnlesy; in fact, I had the
oversight Of it. ! know Of Illicit whisky being
manufactured there between 1873 and 1875. I
first started running crooked when Jake Rehm
made N arrangement with me. After TINT IT.
rangemeut ne run our oTn Way without lear OF
interference. I had known Rchm for years be
vasi the business. Most NIL the other disti1lcrs
OF Chicago bought their malt of Kchn. The
rapacity ot our distillc1y was 1900 bushels a
day, and We used sixty Or seventy bushels
n st 9,a as The dy o4S o. 1Stn hss TS
The conference that 1t would not do for us to
straight business alone, and he replied that we
could work Us ths other establishments did II We
"GREAsE TIE wHEE1s"
En m we paid Nj. Rehm ahout SO, 600, and m
derstood from him that the money WIS divided
money was that ne could hare such officers as we
desired In order that we might manufacture Illicit
Epirits. Ke sent the whisky 70 our rectifyins
turned and used agntn. The whisky was got ont
pf The rectify1ng house by dumping 1t without de.
sTes1S ;as e ELM ss@p' IN resaa the 1s r.;
dtsf11lcty wsre paid S. to PEI barel for their as
T ouf
were paid in this manner. The state Of the market
during this time was bad, and prices were low.
eesaei esss sasR f. Ross psd s.
crooked 1rom is7S 70 ls75; Ws bought crooked
Black Hnwk. seyexal times; both Of these estah
Nehmepts paid money 10 .Rhem-
AEssRs. MUM AND BRIDGES
paid Ttat to cur rectfyng house in the spring OF
ISIS. Word WIS sent to me Of the visit by Roelle,
when was on 'Chnngc. Some empty barrels we're
found With the stamps on, and defendant asked ne
not kncsx anything about it,-that it WIS mere
nyeE1f8ha >-and he tola mt he wanted day q two
to consider tho matter. then went 70 Jake Rehm
said Mr.. Munn might wnnt 10 make little money
o1t Ct me, @ md asked would not pay s5qo. !
lid I'll, was Wiling 70 pay CO., and sase Reh
etnl days afterwards md be said it WAS not worth
whils a,aking any trouble about tho matter. 1
heart no more about the barrels after that.
CROss-ELANEAT10N
by liz 1ngersoll: never entered into conspiracy
with defendant to deftand the Government. +
cannot ~ EhetheE nehm paid the money he 1e-
ceived to Na11u- do not remember that Rehm
told me that Annp was CO operating With the King,
and TINT By paying money everything would
run snooii , tod .ta NJ Mum 9 there vas
ss aaa Defendant acted 'as' aoass ss:s
he believed my representations. There WIS gen
e1a1 belef thas MUM .yas in the Ring. but cannot
aay that Relm ever told me the defendant was
party . the general frauds Before went into the
the leader. In reply to my representations he made
proposition 20 that We could run Just Is the 9th
e1s. Iused to make reports of the business occa;
sous were not The Gaugers mud Storekcepers al
no made reports, but don't know whether they had
to swear TO tEem; It WIS none uf my business. At
right. We entered all the whisky, except the
crooked, that came into cur house on the Govern
Gaent book. Ee were also required to Keep book
trnthfa11y. This would show that nearly twice as
book va all the crooked" We reeeived, and on On
the other ali the straight" and ''erooked" sold
sould have detected the difference. That book was
burned up, but une had called to sec it for seven
or eight years. ! have been indicted for the
.'crooked" business and pleaded guilty. was
6 still pending. I paid Rehm about $50, 600
altogether from The fat Of 1872 70 April, 1s75.
hare no personal knowledge that he Paio Mum any.
= crooked we manufactured. We used to run
our full capacity Of straight, and We could not
naks much of the Illicit whisky over. We some
Times uadc one and sometimes two tubs Of
he orooSed during the three yeass. " We mi might M
l1ave made 5000, O00 but would not bet On this
H'e might hate paid Rhem few thousands more
chan have satrd; We were pretty liberal ih those
tion with my Late bookkerper. Admit that every
R{acer IN Ehc Collectors Office knew was Z thief.