The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-02-24
jHEHM 4 CO.'S CR00KEDNESS.
2IfC BTG UTISKEr RINGS SECRETS NO
LONGER TIfI-TR SECRETS.
VIA, Judge rIntchfcrd rnncied wa. Par
ucuinriy 'rooked-tsow 'crtn'n '"'e"
slutr. OnlcinIs were Made Very Useful


States Onlcinis were Made Very Useful
Tie first witness i'm the crooked whiskcy
cr., Yesterday. before Judge Blatchford, was
Jake Rehm. through whose hands passed most
y. Che money paid go revenue officials 10y the
rhicaQo Whisky Ring. jake paid $4,000 fine
but Ind served only four of his six months sem
iense in jail when Grant pordoned him. Jake
looks rough AMI tough. but shy. H. said he
know MUM who was Supervisor ot Internal
Revenue in Chicago in 1874 and 1875; Irwin.
who was Cole tor up to September. 1874. and
Wadsworth. who succeeded Irwin. and served
until June, 1873. He also knew among the
Chicago distillcrs, Il. C. Merscrcau. Simeon
Powell William Cooper and the South Branch
Distilling Company. and Golscn X Eastman.
rectificrs. He did not know Of any of these
persons paying money to Government officers,
although he himself had SO paid out money
He paid Wadsworth $4,000 or $4,000 in 1874
and Irwin from $500 to 8 500 a month until he
died in September, 1874. This money he re-
ceived from distcrs. by his request, the Col
citor assigned storckccpcrs to- different places
while these payments were being made. These
requests he made at the nstanccoi a. {, He sing.
George Miller. and 9th"fs lie received the
hoa;i, Junkgr 4 Co..and nics ns.2,n AK Leach q
lie Collector, from $500 10 81 500 q month
Messing paid him from $1,000 TO sl5oo2 ON
account Dl me Blttk ftsANk B-llllFTN anu NllLIN
William Cooper carrioi on the Black Hawk Dis
tllrry. lie got from the revenue officers in
Chicago information relative 70 revenue agents
coming from other places to Chicago, and COM
municated it 10 lIcsing ami others.
Jake Rehm denied having received any
money from the persons alleged 10 have been
connected with the suitacy ON trial: But he
materially c,ontradicted H1,yinE, who: it may be
knew nothing OF any money being paid To rev
enue officials. in Chicago. liesing started for
Chicago On "Wednesday night,
Tho npNt witness w illtuln =. GClSpn. OF
Golsen Eastman. Guls"n was Included with
Francis o. Boyd aud Edgar /, Hill in the con
spiracy indictment. and Gen. Tracy mad" this
the ground OF ohic ting to his b,ing sworn.
Assistant District Attorney sherman settled
case Of Gosen. who said he did not know that he
Sass indicted tie and hi R@r'ncE Tgrg mem I'm
is74, when Mr. Clark died, and iGcy;
carried on The onsin's. under ne new name.
He saw Col liill III January or February. 1873,
in Chicago. and tpri him thcy had IL surplus Of
whisky, and would pay him 81 a harrelto dis
ser cent. At tina; time and NJ Il, April 1875.
they were reccivins spifis from II. G. Morse
indictment are urgcd t. have been received.
was al,ou, 200 barrels a day. and h. received
sThe custom was. WHEN The barrels came with
tax-paid STAMPS, 20 take III the -,nmps and re-
on a second lot. He entered in thn book only
the first lot Tor ihe super' sion oi the Govern
The same stamps came back ono OF twice; ~
very often. When they came from Mcrsereal
HE returned them in person TO Merserruu :
brother. When they ralnD from Cooper. Of tn
South Branch Distlicry Company. he returned
them tu the United States EUuErr When Il,
had a surplus OF VII -k,y thus unrrprcso
on the GuNernNc mt stlmI e 'hat .c.ug the num-
Der OF gallons elNrd IN thr ut ihll-hmrnt. Il,
shipped II t. Boyd CO.. md laitlN to- vinegar
factories. Tue straight wlisi''y received from
dsticrs regularly stamped. and the crook nd
with the STAMPS uss Il again, WAS dumped int,
the cist"rn without distinction, and he could
not therefore irn whether thar sent to- BOYD A
Go. WAS stra Kit or crooked. or both. He know
that the mark, Il and {. each with diumoud
were used ON the cuns!anmcnt- 10 Boyd a Co.
but he could not rgm,mh0r whether they Wtr,
1liyis d what they meant. Tho marks V, a. foi
his private use. He never told his clerks what
They meant. nNr That he rt'HlvI a crooked goods
He eyad, 4 - planning what thry did mean. hu
r., sali he had also used a; tm,- the mars
judge plut-h'ord-That means particular,
crooked. suppose. ll~u-ht0rl
accepted las unrr am he shipped goods iothrn
in iliy harf'l 'oi- H. ha1 shipped goods T.
them briorr ia" int ryi,w with Col. Boyd. hu
never with tlc~o marks. H. identified hi- sli,a
book which was -sN-d with h.s place ia ls7i
and number If accounts % -al"- To- Boyd
Co The last time Ice hul seen th.m was n.ior'
the Grand Jury IN Chicago. Aitnra long arsu
mrnt against Thee ului-si hlllty uf the HDcount
OF sale on the ground tna' the particular,
rcceycd from Il. {. VI i~rroau. y- alleged in th
Indictment. thry were admitted. and the ,nur
ADJOURNED without completing the eAaminatiol
Ol Go!~.n