, 1876-02-05
THE PLOT.
AND WHO PUT IT UP.

MILWAUKEE, Fob. Alt seems from all cau
lonrn that the excollent people of Chicago arc
somewhat excited over tue arrest Of ono OF tllcir
Asdo,mop. and that they rather wondor how We,
living In a suburb. should havo darod 10 hold o
lAw-maaer to bail.
In order that you fuay not aeouso lis OF pro-
sumption In what wo haso dono haTo care-
fully canvasscd tho case against tho Respondents
to tho Indictments. and l viii give you, without
circumlocution, tho allegations mado in tho
Grand Jury room, against the four parties who
figured In tho tcsti1uony:
Il wsH a.sertou then that, just after tho
ae.zuros hero last spring, tl1oro was mado tro-
moplous effort 10 get out OF the fowlor's net
without harm, and tho good distii!ere Of thfa
city lid MI In their poner to drive tho dovcrn-
mont officers out Of town with tho AaAortion that
shey woro carnos-baggoIa. and worse. Wh!!c
this stnto OF things lasted tue dla.illors weto
s would pInSs' hs7o given 1p I sr @ M 's soas
Of, tho samo thing, tlalr wloia bank accounts
to be out Of ti1a trouble.
roriapa somo tdiugs Of this state Of mind
may haYo reaohod Chicago. or it may have buea
gestcd what followed; but anyway the allegation
IL that Goldberg aud - camo up lese from
tho Garden City and talked around among tho
distllors for some Tine. ['rhe nnme Of uo!d-
Ut[K uCutlHCu hEEQulpllGG Is oullIktu bGEnHHD uQ
has uot yet boon srressed.-ED.j The propost-
tIo1l that they madd nt ttat. time was very gen.
oral, aud did not go into detalls az to
place, Time, or price. II senuls TINT the pair
then atRtod only ploaaant willinHnesH TO get
tho Xeutldmen out OF their trouble for . coll
sidcration. Nothing vas done. however, and
tho gentlemen from Chlcago returned to their
homes with tho understanding that tho neRotiA-
tons were to bo renewed a. Au early date, II
agreeable to tho people fsom hore.
kIlOrR ~ I'm
plan limited It ia shown By tho fact that shore
Was, AZ is alleged,
coSYEnrScE tn cllIcAuo
on the subject not iong sitter tho frat PROPOSE
committee Of sf,lwaukes dlBtillers, neaded by
Lewis Nindskopf aud Leopold Wirth on the
on8 hand and-as the evidence ls-JRke 1tohu1,
Julius Jonas. Philip Goldberg, and - on
tho other. I contese that I am unable to
council! took place but, from tho fact that lsohn
was then Cbiof OF Police, ! Rni Inclined to
think that 1t WAS in his ollico. Tho
chief hing orgau hero Btates that 1t Was
thu Sherman House. but the source is.pr,ma
party came together, ono Of tlle geut!olnen from
yonr city explained that 1t wouldn't be al impos-
sib1e job 10 get into tho Collectors office some
night and tako away all tho documents tint were
to pay. II MAS olso Raid thst tho entrance to
Prosecuting -Attoruoy AIckonnoy broom tho. PAT
NeHhall 1louas) would not be tiinlcult
thing, and tint the papors there could DO iu-
cluded III tho bargain. The sum demanded by
tho gcntlnsnon WHO wanted to undertake. tho Job
WhH at first $iGy, 900 but this sooFned to our
delegation cntlrolJ too much, aud that showing
waa promptly nogutyed. Iour prominent citt-
zens then came down to S70.0lo aud shortly
afterwards to s5o. LOCO but il did not socm 10
pledge ANY such amount. Thon the cheap burg
lars Ut Chicago Offered 10
DO TIE WHOLE THING uP NEATLY FOR e30, 900
II paid on ths spot, or before tho job was done.
Upon this tho dc"sgates from tho C1oam City
o1rcred $25, QUO, &na would not 10 cent higher,
Wlereupon negotiations were for the t,1!o
broken of, with Tho understanding tbss there
might bo M0ro talk alter time
Upon this, hLGss1B. Wirth nsudskopk and
company calno hong, aud tho project s!ilnborod
for 4 littlu time until 1t WAS brought up ngal,,
by second visit from MosHra. uoldbtrE mud
friend, who this timo offered to Glenn out tho
unpleasant papers from the oilices for tho s25,-
UUD patd il haut.
But t.Ian again camo anothor trouble, which
really burstod tho whole affair. 1t was tho fear
that tAaso would comu up : necessity 10 lil
somebody, and that then there might bo danger
OF q Btrotchod mock. This, aud tho fact that tho
robbers would not work without pay IN adyapcs,
whllo tho employers would not pay except aftct
the documents wesa rouIoyed, ruined tho whuio
affair, else Wo might peshaps hayo had up here
All addition to tho Whisky Hing not elaowheto
9tt0llFto11. ~ l1lAAhiAp nauR HiLu bHHp1HutE
attachment would be worthy Of Milwaukee,.
1t III understood that --- usod to Lo in tho In.
ternal lloYtnue service In Illinois, WA familiar
with tho Whisky buslnesg, aud would know Just
What paperH it ua4 ueceBshry to soize. Tic dis
tilleIs did not lava any implicit faith Ia him,
however, and feared that attor ho aud his asso-
clates had COTTON the papnrs they might hold un
70 them, aud o1act heavy ransom for tho,r de-
livery.
JONAS .nd Goldberg aro now at tho NoHlall,
protesting tLer Innocence.