The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-27
cost Of OLD NICK
Cloud of Witnesses From
Booze Rooms.
Efforts of HoIton to Question POSSIBLE
lily of Selling Old Nict at Prices
Given if Taxes Had Been
Paid.
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Greensboro, n. c., Oct. 26.-There
was more movement to the evidence
In the Old Nick Williams case now
going on III the Federal court this
morning than fer any previous SEES
sion.
When court opened. the district at
trrncy stated that it would take Il
long time to complete the evidence
OF the railroad agent at Clemmons,
t,e shipping point of the company,
and by consent, witnesses here
from distant points, were allowed to
bc examined SO that they could re-
turn home. These witnesses en-
dealers from all over the country,
from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, In
oIana, Virginia, South Carolina,
Florida and North Carolina. But 1t
tic time was consumed in the cross
examination, witnesses showing their
checks. invoices and bills for goods
purchased and received from the
company.
The largest bill shown was by a
saloon keeper in Atlanta. who had
purchased 1000 cases of "Old Nick. .
three gallons to the case at $1.25 per
gallon. How many of these witnesses
will yet be introduced nobody but the
district attorney knows, as one follows
another with clock like regularity.
This line of testimony is evidently for
the PIT pose of slio-7ving the volume of
the business of the company. The
defendants counsel contented them
selves i'm each case by receiving from
each witness the statement that they
had TO pay more for the "Old Nick
goods than for others. The lowest
price paid was by a Macon, Georgia.
saloon keeper. who paid % cents a
gallon for three barrels of sixty proof
corn liquor.
a very stout saloon keeper of In
dianapolis. named Stout. had bought
eight barrels of whiskey in gallon jug
lots and two barrels of apple brandy
in gallon jug lots at $1.95 per gallon.
Among the North Carolina witnesses
were tho managers of the d.SpenSaries
at Raleigh, Warrenton and Wilson.
w. r. Bachelor of Raleigh. had
bought, 795 gallons of six years and
twenty years of old Nick. put up in
half pints, pints and quarts, none of it
costing less than 5000
Asked by the district attorney what
ii cost to bottle whiskey he said il
cost fifty cents a gallon.
Fifty cents Il case. YOU mean, don t
you?" asked Judge Bynum.
NO. it costs me that much every
L
the bottle is labelled and corked."
said the Raleigh manager. He adj
m.tted that he paid high prices for
his help. said he made 81 rule to pay
good prices for his men. and that it
ought to be bottled and labelled much
cheaper i'm Yadkin county
There was no legal hair splitting
by attorneys this morning. those for
the defendants simply Watching every
e III nd inn ross
ing by every witness the fact that the
company was not selling goods below
what others were. or TO-. less than it
could be done after all the require
mcnts of the law had been complied
with. The only damage apparently
done seemed to be in the minds of
those who arc drinking this whiskey
at from $500 to $500 quart, which
the dispcnsaries and the saloon people
buy at from 80 cents to $1.65 a gal
Ion. showing enormous profits to the
dispenser, not even allowing for water
or doctcring. while the manufactures
gets but little out of it, except Il con-
tnuas! russell with the government to
keep out of the poor house, the jail
or the penItcntiary
The afternoon session of the Fed
cral court was Il repetition of that of
the morning. beng devoted entirely
TO the examination of dispenSary man.
ayers and liquor dealers as TO amount
al whiskey purchased from the Old
Sick Company and prices for same.
- SpenSary managers from Johnston
county towns, saloon keepers from all
over the country numbering eighteen,
were examined and discharged. leaving
n number of this class for Friday.
District Attorney Holton showed
his purpose to question the possibility
of selling at prices detailed if taxes
had tccn paid by repeated efforts this
evening to prove by expert bottlers in
Wholesale houses the extra cost per
gallon of putting up case goods. but
counsel for defendants fought this
point successfully.
Only one witness. from Jacksonville,
Fla, gave an estimate. and this only
as TO the market ./st per case of
cmpties before filling. labelling, ETC.,
which he said was eighty-five cents
for quartz $f.10 for pints. S1.35 for
half pints cases holding three gal
Ions.
Attorney ]. S. Barringer ,las brought
suit for $4,000 against the Southern
railway for Gains Winningham, who
lost leg by being run over by tram
he was boarding at High Point, in
September.