The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
10 MAKE LIQUOR CHEAP.
'COST :. ID. RIVALS 800 FOR BO-
CTS WHISKY RECEIPTS.

w. Rushing Under Bond on a
harge Of Cheating and syyindIInz
Sind Doing a Liquor Business With
eout United states TaEs-Rushing
- Bft by a Louisville Man. and, To-
Eether with John scott. Is Now
Charged with Doing RyaIs Out Of
\ 500 for Receipts for Making Cheap
Whistles and Wines Which Turned
4 Ont 10 BE Fakes.
What appears TO be a neat and clever
swindIe has just eliminated In the arrest
fof j. ". Rushing on the charge Of cheat
ng and sWIndling and q retailing liquor
without having paid 10 the United States
-he special tax required By law.
on the first charge Rushing was held
Nnder a bond Of 80 by Justice Waring
RUSSELL Jr>. and on the second charge
.inder a 500 bond 10 appear al the next
ERIN Of the United States district court.
apt II. J. Doyle became surety for
sushings appearance.
I u seems that Rushing some time ago
Icame across very sharp young man
from Louisville who said be could man
ufacture good rye whisky. Holland gin,
California brandy. corn whisky and port
wine out OF comparatively Inexpensive
materials at the alarmingly low price per
gallon. Of from y to . cents. Rushing
biz al the bait. at least so the story goes,
and parted with 500 Of his good money
for the secret. The fly young man from
Louisville left after giving Rushing six
recipes for making this cheap liquor.
Rushing. i is claimed, Immediately
started In business by having printed
about 80 sheets containing all the re-
ceipts. Whether or not he disposed OF
many Of them d. Is hard TO say, but on
Dec L. or thereab bouts, he met 5. y. Ryals
al The Harnett house and Immediately in
terested him In the scheme. AT this juno
ture another man, John Scott, appeared
on the scene. and. 10 is stated, worked IN
conjunction with Rushing, though u is
only fair 20 the latter 10 state that he
claims Scott did all the work, he being
q uassaVe spectator. 1t was proposed by
one Of them TO Ryals that he could make
a good thing out Of manufacturing this
cheap liquor and putting IL on the market,
using empty whisky barrels from which
the revenue stamps had not been ehaced.
Ryals. it is said. bit. but demurred 70
giving up his money without seeing the
stun made up. That was an easy matter,
they said and insinuated that at least
one man in Savanna was handling the
goods. and mentioned the name Of Jacob
Schocn. corner of ST. Julian and Bar
nard streets Ryals knew the place, and
with Scott and Rushing went into Solo
mons drug store, and the latter purchas-
ed six half pint bottles. The trio went 10
Schoenfs place where the cOntraband IL
QuOr was supposed 10 be made. The bot
ties were filled by q clerk employed there,
Scott and Rushing being on the inside and
kyals on the outside, watching Lne opeT-
, ations. The liquor was brought out and
Ryals pronounced 1t great, parted with
cool SlO0 and Scott never came back.
The circular handled by Rusting was
made uD with the intention Of conveying
sthe idea that prominent drug firm, on
William streets New York city, was re-
sponsible for IL. Certain essential oils
twere necessary TO produce this bogus
xiquOr. the circular stating that these
druggists would furnish it upon applica-
ton, at certain price.
n Ii seems that Ryals had visions Of get
a. ing rich in a short time. for he ordered
~ quantity of these oils and extracts from
his firm, but was dismdyed 10 receive
., letter I'm reply that he was swindled
P3ut of his money by some clever sharpers.
srhey knew nothing about the circular,
md stated that they were continually
annoyed by receiving such orders from
hal parts OF the country.
HeIt was not until the receipt Of this letter
pat Ryals believed there was anything
NrOng. and he started out on the war
suPIh for Scott, Rushing and his Sl00
maushing was astonished, declaring that
nee never had any dealings with Ryals
colt might have done something wrong
Iit he was not responsible for SCOTS
Vo,tions. he said, in fact, he did not know
=. ,c0tt, Ryals. or anybody else.
q
~ induce Rushing to refund the Si0J had
ram arrested for cheating and swindling
Re also went before Commissioner NJ
-. Connolley and had a warrant issued
lu9r Rushing for carrying on the business
thf selling liquor without having paid the
orax. Commissioner Connolly was in re-
aneipt of information from another source
yehat Jacob SchCen. al whose place the IL
suor was procured by Rushing and Scott,
lad several empty whisky barrels in his
sOOssesslon from which the revenue stamps
Saad not been removed, which was viola
ciion of law He gave Rushing a hearing
ayesterday and held him under bond. Scott
irhas disappeared, IL is said, having left for
Jacksonville when Ryals became too per-
sistent- 1t has been known for some time
that some parties have been pushing in
this vicinity cheap grade Of liquor and
II was thought Rushings arrest would
throw some light on it. 1t is said that some
of this stuff has been manufactured on the
line of the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway, and that large quantities Of it
has been disposed of.