New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-24

~. l..t vinAsr.. when Maaieh's clerk pro-,
inced an invoice Of an entry in . very short
timc~ vitnees eaid to him, How in tho devil
csn Won get up an invoice 90 qutckY Hou
mnst haSe consul's seat mp tN tho store.
The clerk only laughed st this remark with.
ont making any reply to 1t. About Snes
time quite pAcksge Of this invoice paper
~ packed in one Of the casee OF csgefs
which came from Havana to hancn' ms
clerk took it mp to the store. Wa.
Questi0n-DO you mean 70 say Inst Iss
ich and HE clerk were engaged IN MAKING
fraudulent invoices with forged consular
AneverI am only telling the Conversar
ton that took place between. the clerk and
myeelf. -, ~ A..
circumstances connected with the twelve
cases Of cigars that were taken out -
Howard, who used to work for Gonzales q
Brother. When these cases were loaded
on the dray the inspector remarked TO tne
drayman, champagne ON ice for some
body"
round two or three squares, and back again
to Mssich's store. Masich's clerk told
witness that the duty was pa,d on tnese
Gases % gusva Jelly: The clerks name va
Isaac. Witness could not reconect INC ct sI
name, but knew he was nePne" VI ME'
Mssich's wife.
The croae-examinstion was continued at
treat length, but no important changes in
the testimony devei0ped-witnese reiterat-
;nn his former testimony. After he had re-
peated his testimony about the seizure OF
cigars in the vinegar factory, Judge Wilson
offered the following, which had been re-
oeived from New Orleans by telegraph
We. the undersigned inspectors Of Gus
toms. certify that about the fifteenth of
December, 1873, we we're directed by Special
AGENT Kineella to assist Inspector Hutchin-
son in searching an old building near Bur
lev's vinegar factory for smuggled cigars.
We proceeded direct from Kinsella's Office
with Hutchinson, taking GOLDSMITH with
ms to the building, which We found looked
and NO person there. We had the door I'M
locked by the lccksmith and made the SER
ure. Ferguson's statements that Hutchin-
eou told Masich's clerk that he would
give him one hours time to get the cigars
away are absolutely false. 1t is impossible
that any such arrangement could have
been made without our knowledge, and
there was no person about the building to
make any arrangements with. Ferguson's
statement that the cigars in three of the
cases were stamped 10 false. We examined
and counted all the cigars. and every box
was unstamped. Please hand this tele-
gram to the committee.
THOMAS II. WYNNE,
E. DETIEGE,
InspectOrs of Customs.
Also, the following:
Kinsella has sent the following telegram
to tho solicitor of the treasury:
Ferguson il reported to have sworn be-
fore the Louisiana committee that the cigars
seized in the vinegar factory were brought
there from Q bonded warehouse. Will you
please refer to my report of December Is,
1873, relative to seizure of III 800 cigars,
from which it will be seen that the cigars
were hauled from the New basin and the
Mobile depot. If you have no objection,
wish Won would present said report and
this telegram to the committee.
p. F. HERWIG,
Special Deputy Collector.
Also the following:
The records of this Office show that the
steamship Merida, referred to in Fergu-
cons testimony before the Louisiana COM
1875, having no cigars on board. She
cleared February 20, and was not in this
port at any time during the month of
March. JAMES F, CASEY,
Collector of Customs
Witness said he did not expect Kinsella
to admit that these cigars came out OF
warehouse No. 6, when he had two sons on
the pay rolls there besides himself.
QuestiOn-DO you mean to say that Mr..
KiDsella would make q false report!
Answer-I mean to say that don't be-
lieve he would make any report az ainst the
CustOmhouse.
Witness said that Met arthy told him that
Masich gave him MCCARTHY IS per thou
sand on all the cigars he entered for him.
Witness was questioned about his visit to
the Treasury Department with the sub
committee to-day to find the bogus pay.
rolls, and said that he did not find single
one of them there. He found his own pay
rolls there, and three others that he would |
not cay that he did or did not sign, as he |
could not say. The treasury officials pro- |
duced over 600 pay rolls, but witness could
not find any of the bogus ones He could
only say that there must be some other pay |
rolls somewhere, for he was certain he |
signed them, and q large crowd of men |
we're waiting for their money when he did
20.
The committee then adjourned to meet in |
New Orleans on Saturday, the twenty-sev-
snth instant, for which place they will |
start tomorrow.