New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-12
The News of Brooklyn
ILLICIT STILL TRIAL ENDS.
THE CASE OF JOHN BRADY NOW TO GO
INTO THE JURY'S HANDS.
STORY OF THE DEFENDANT AS TOLD BY HIM ON
THE WITNESS sTAND--IlE SAYS THAT HE
WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOON

STORY OF THE bFbNDANl AZ iOi-D d 4'i'' Wv
THE WITNESS sTAND--IIE SAYS THAT HE
WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOON
SINNERS ONLY As AN EMPloYE
TIL. trial o. John Brady on the charge Of running
an Illicit distery IN Dfiggsave. was completed yes
terday in the United States District Court. before
Justice Addison Brown. United States Dis;ric;-At-
torney Bennett appeared for the Government, ana
ex-l-nited States D.srict-Attorney ArgeM appeared
for the defendant,
The first witness called yesterday morning vas
James McGreggor. who had beer indicted with
Brady in June 1895 but who escaped, and was re-
arrested Two months ago. McGscgsor said mat he
was junk man al No. 200 Fush.ng-ave. and that
he had been a partner with Brady in operating the
still He said that Brady had proposed the idea OF
conducting a still McGregSor turned informer, and
betrayed the secret OF the business. He said that
Brady had sod two barrels OF whskey to 4 liquor
dealer at Classon-ave. and Chiffon Place. who CON-
mitted suicide las; summer rather than lace the
charges made against him. He also acknowledged
selling liquor 10 Moses Ruberstein. o. No Morel-
ST. who had Sent TO the still one OF he stamped
barrels captured there by the Government officers.
McGroggor admitted that he had once served five
years in the peniten,iary for criminal assault Mr..
Bennett asked him i. ne guilty OF the crime.
Il was not" he promptly replied.
Il object. jury convicted him" said Mr. Angel
A jury convicted Lanserman." reiorted the Dis
tfici Attorney.
When Brady called to the stand he said he
was sixtytwo years old and lived a. No. l5i Gin
ton Place. He said he carpenter and had
worked in the Navy Yard He said that seventeen
or eighteen years ago he mad been sentenced for
conducting ic.t still the Hudson River.
The still had been owned by another man. and he
had been arrested when coming from the stll. He
said he had in the oil business for three or
four years with partners whose names were Gafin.
Scnffen, Reid and Ed Stokes OF the hoffman
House. He had conducted the business at 1ami-
ton-ave. and Smth-st and had lost $4,000 In the
venture lie explained his connection with the
still where he arrested by saying that Lynch
and McC;reggor had hired him 10 build a pickle
factory there. and that after he had finished the
work his employers Informed him that they III
tended 10 use the building for manufacturing
whskey, and offered him position with them
with salary OF Sl5 a week He accepted this offer.
and insisted that he had been connected with thd
distery only an empoye OF Lynch ana NC
Greggor. lie said. however. that he had toid
man who had asked him where rum could he
bought that ii could be secured In the Brggs-aNe'
distcry.
Several witnesses testified 70 Bradys good cnar-
actcr The defence maintained that the prisoner
was a poor man. having lost all the money that ne
once possessed. Among these witnesses was ex-
Assemblyman Patrick Burns The lawyers on pom
sides summed up their cases. ana the court Wa
adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning. when Jus
tice Brown will charge the jury.