Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29
WYLIE TELLS Ills STORY.
Got Rebates Amounting to About
Thirty Thousand Dollars.

Columbia, Sept. 2i.-The State
struck "rich pay dirt" and plenty of
it in Dispcnsary Director J. B. Wy
lies testimony in the bribery case
against Farnum, Of Charleston, yes
tCrday.
Mr.. Wylie made Il sweeping con-
fession saying that he got rebates to
The extent of thirty thousand dollars
or more for his vote in awarding
purchases to Farnum, through Henry
Samucls, and directly by drafts and
in cash, according TO a fixed scale of
so much per barrel and cash.
He said he had not made reStitu-
tion and would not do so.
lie said he had been promised i'm
munity from prosecution, but not
from Il civil action 10 recover th!S
property.
lie said he had always resolved TO
tell IT," truth on the stand; that he
wanted 10 square himself with the
people of the State.
by telling them you were a thief,
how do YOU think people look on
that" asked counsel.
81 don't care what they think after
this is all over" he answered.
The witness then went into details
VI io" ilc SoN IliN iilOlltS llc S'ilu
he had been a member Of the church,
bat had been turned out. When he
got the rumor confirmed that his
bank mad given him away he arrang-
ed, through his attorney, to make
confession to the Attorney General.
lie said the money he got did him
no good. He Thought Of doing no
harm in accepting rebates, but he
knows better now and wouldn't do
it again.
Farnum gave him four hundred
dollars to get the Legislature to elect
him a member Of that boaro, and
told him before the election how he
could make Il lot OF money on the
side. The rotating began, undoubt-
cdly, after his election, he said.
Yesterday Afternoons Session.
Columbia, Sept. 23.--Robt. Gage,
cashier of the Commercial Bank OF
Chester, yesterday afternoon reiter-
atcd his statement made on the
stand as to the cashing of the draft
from Farnum to SamuclS, and also
that he marked with red ink the
500 bill on the bottom, the same
being deposited next day by Mr.
Wylie.
This testimony and the contents
OF the draft were admitted as sec
Ondary evidence after hard legal
fight.
Other witnesses were put on the
stand to trace the draft back to the
Consumers beer bottlng establish
mcnt. 1t was shown that the State
had exercised diligence to have the
original draft in court.
Joseph b. Wylie, Of Chester, for
merly Il member OF the State dis
pcnSary board Of control, the man to
whom the indictment charges that
James Farnum, now on trial, paid
the alleged hribc. took the stand
yesterday afternoon for the State.
The testimony did not run into the
sensational. In fact the proceedings
were very tedious and tireSOme. the
state bringing out a mass Of docu-
mcntary evidence.
The principal matters brought to
the attention of the jury were the
extracts from the minutes Of the
board during the year 1906, and the
bids, awards and goods ordered from
the house alleged to have been rep
resented by Farnum at the time.
There was breath of suspense
when Mr.. Wylic took the stand at
the afternoon session. Sensational
Developments were. expected. Wylie
appeared very nervous. He told
Of thc awards by the board. and
other evidence Of a technical nature
was given.