New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-25
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I'll rs, 1876.
/ THE wnlsKf CAsRs.
Fsseth Day's PrcosealAm. -
The court Was opened ct eleven o'elook
/ WNltam =. 00Ak, Colled-WAs deputN
| S0ilectof under NJ. 0tockdale; John Mc
Whirter va IN charge Of distillerise belov
Cea4 street; 1r. 2Dwsae ~ storekesper;
sor s ~: 1sockdale when 9ewSsin Californi'
To Mr. RoGse- There we're four distil
lefies (deacEjptisn snd location givsn]; Nc
Whirter had . hundred TO look after, and
went aropnq Hetw6en the first and tenth o1
Zach month; was at the oolleotor's Office
daily; osw him there; known him eix years
believe he did his duty faithfally.
Re-direct~The Office houEs wore from nine
to three, but seizure should be made, if
there was cause, later.
Nathaniel BurhDnk, sworn-Was deputy
collector of internal revenue, first district
Of Louisiana, in the office of Collector
Stochdale, in the spring Of 1874; was Office
deputy, employed in issuing tobacco
stamps. filing up taxpaid spirits stamps,
and doing clerical work required; was
charged with no duties outside Of the
Qfice; kAew Deputy Collector Mo
Whirter; he came to the Office soon after
it YVES in 1873; McWhirter had general su-
pervision over distilleries and breweries,
and it was also his duty to inspect the
books Of wholesale liquor dealers and
recti6ers; there were twelve or thir-
teen 'breweries,. located in different
parts of the, ,cityi it was the duty Of recti.
he!s TO- bring thsir monthly feturns to the
office; he compared their retlkna, tho forms
forty five, with tho dumping notices, forms
wsrded to Washinston, for the previous
month, before tho tenth Of each subsequent
, ponth; the warehouse stamps and whole
sale liquor daelers' stamps we're intfusted
to the gaugers; the tax-psid stamps and
Potifiers' stamps were made out in the col,
lector's Office 4om and according to the
gauger'e returns; the gaugers would get \
book of warehouse and dealers stamps
whenever required, And receipt for the
same, returning the stubs when the stamps
had been Issued; the stub books we're re-
turned to Washington after being exam
ined; the examination of stubs was merely
to see if the blanks had been properly
filed up.
Cross-examination- -BefoiA the commits.
eiOner's circular was issued, about April 30,
1874, no book account of spirits dumped by.
rectifiers was kept in the collectors office;
the stub books were returned to Washing
ten every month; McWhirter would: occor
si0nallY 60 for rectifier's roturns in Gases
not say that the force in the collectors
Office was decreased in. the spring of 1874,
but there was moro work to do and more
help was not allowed, although asked for.
Re-ditect-C Collector Stockdale was in his
Office perhaps about half 6f the time be-
tween January and April, 1874; he made
trip to Florida in February; his. health was
very bad and he was thinking of ofresiening his
Office; the employees Of tho Office complained
1t was the rule to deliver tax-paid whisky
stamps to the gaugers after they had been
p1id tor; the rule was not invariable; have
kpown such stamps to be given 60 distil-
lefs or to clefks Who would take them %
the gaugerse;' the law does not say the tax
paid stamps shall be delivered only to
Rsugers; it says the stamps shall be put en-
the packages BY the gaugers in the presence
of the stOrekeepefs At distilleries.
Thomas EntWistlle called-Was masher
and assistant distiller with Fearenbach
from January l2 to March 25, 1874; enplOy-
ed by him; mashing was done day and
night; made mashes January IL.
To the court-T0 make . pash is to cpok
the grain to get the degree Of heat to pre-
pare for fermentation; afterward water 4
must be added to cool it.
: To District Attorney Beckwith the witness
then detailed the amount of grain in the
distillery-corA rye and. meal and the
amount of yeast-the temperature which
should be reduced in the tubs by an addi- |
tion of nearlyequsl amount of cold water
to the quantity then produced and the |
process down to the turning off Of the
Dteam. 1t might not take over fifteen
minutes for this part. This was rare. The |
witness could not give an average. 1t |
,ould be two hours less as he had said. 1t |
night be moro. Ice was not used; cold !
water was. No preparation is necessary |
or the cistern except to clean it. January |
2 made five mashes, possibly six.
In questions to the counsel on both aides, |
he witness then detailed from his memo |
andum the condition of the nine tubs from
Fanuary 13, when he was uncertain about
lumber Elk, to the end of March; some days.
n the beginning, there we're only few,
hree to five, later more, several days all,
md two days, February 10 and 25, ten Of
hem; ON the first date there was ''sOme ex-
itement about officers" March and IL
we're given for each day: saw Mr.. Todd,
'auger, two or three times Q week; Paul
Bruce, night st9rekeeper, used to come
rom one to three. hours: never saw
,eals weigh grain; he was. the day
torekeeper and had the key; have seem
'ehrenbacA unlock the warehouse and 90
l;thave seen him and Beals enter the dis
illery (cistern) room together; liquor has
one from there when the gauger was not
resent; the first instance was in the second
'eek, at IL P. M; Fehrenbach, Frank
Edmonds and a. workman were
resent; high wines could be drawn off with
hose; do not know who had the key of
be lock of'the faucet; thirty or forty bar.
els were Withdrawn; when q barrel was
lied it could be sent away IN the barge
he R. E. Leel in the morning; Peter Clark
nd bis men assisted in the shipping; heard
[r, Fehrenbach say it was going to Kars-
endiek's store; ID, was from the small ware
0use, little distance from the levee; the
light on the barge the next morning.
More details of essential figures cOrr0bor
ting the earlier witnesses followed.
On CROSS examination the testimony was |
rat the witness had resided in New York |
lirteen years, in New Orleans since 1873;
lat his purpose had not been to induce Mr.. l.
to conpit = fraud; and that he
ID not believe he was ignorant of the
aud. A slight mistake in two tubs of his I
was corrected.
Mr.. w. @. Steele was called-Was keeper
Fehrenbach's distillery, appointed BY the |
,lleetor April 9. No liquor should be
ken away unless gsuged by w. NJ. Todd.
Tho court here adjourned till to-day at
} A.. n.
Bishop Perche.
The following is from the Morning Star
this week:
The most reverend archbishop, in q let.
{ to Father Anstaett, dated Nsrseilles,
pril !, states that ten days after his sr-
val in that city he had . very severe at