The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-11

from an agent at Savannah for 5000
and at the same time was paying
S1210 for the bulk Of its beer.
Defense objected, but Mr.. Lyon ar
gued that this was relevant as show
ing that the Budweiser people, who,
through J. S. Farnum, we're in the
conspiracy, were holding up the State
for this S1.50 per barrel extra. The
evidence was admitted by Judge
Moore.
Mr.. Lyon asked witness if the SEN
ate of South Carolina or any other
body had brought suit to make him
restore the graft money Defense OBJ
jected-irrelevant and just So" re-
piled Mr.. Lyon, "is it irrelevant wheth-
er the commission has yet done So"
Records Disappeared.
H. Wilkin, secretary of Jim Far
NUNS beer bottling works in Charles
ton, was the next witness after Wylie
came down. Witness had hunted for
drafts drawn on Farnum for various
amounts payable to Henry Samuels,
B. NJ Wilson and others. The rec
ords in Farnum's office had disap-
peared after the auditing by the city
Of Charleston.
Cross-eXamined, witness said he
knew nothing of any such checks at
all.
One of the checks asked about was
one for s1,575 given Wylie by Farnum
through Samuels as emissary plenipo-
tentiary.
Henry Samuels testified that he had
represented John T. Barbee & Co. of
Louisville and H. A. Therman & Co.
of the same place and Cook & Bern
heimer company of New York and
the Atlanta Brewing &, Ice company,
also Geo. A. Keoster &, Co., man
named Flasher from Macon, Ca, and
the White Seal Champagne company.
Was never Farnum's agent or repre-
sentative Farnum had paid him
salary to go to the county dispensar-
les to sell the Long Horn brand made
by the Richland Distilling company.
Went to Atlanta with Joe Wy1ie,
when he was first elected, to see Blu
thenthal & Bickert. They went over
to see if they could do any business.
That firm sold "Old joe" They en-
gagged to sell to the board through
Samuels. But there was never any
sales after that date. Witness said
that W. D. Roy was the general rep
rensentative of Barbee & Theirman
and gave Samuels directions how to
proceed.
Samuels swore that Roy paid him
for work. On the 18th day of Novem-
Der, 1906, Roy gave him check for
$3.50, Samuels cashed it at the
Commercial bank and gave the money
to Wylie in Chester.
W. o. Guy, foreman of the jury,
asked how Samuels knew that he had
paid this money to Wylie; did he take
any receipt for it? Samuels replied
that he had taken mo receipt; he
merely got the checks cashed for
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Witness read out the rebate sched-
ule which Joe B. Wylie gave him a
day or two after it was agreed upon
in Columbia. Witness said that later
the schedule of graft was reduced,
but the one first agreed upon he had
a copy of, and it tailed with that of
Joe B. Wylie put in evidence in the
morning.
Cross Examination.
"You had no dealings that were
crooked or shady with Rawlinson,
Black or Solomons" "No."
"My dealings were with Mr.. Wylie"
There was no concert of action be-
tween you and Wylie and the others?"
Witness replied that there was no un-
derstanding between him and Roy or
Dudley or the others.
Samuels detailed the circumstances
of his visit" to the attorney generals
Office. He said that he lad been
subpoenaed to 90 to Columbia. He
was not willing witness. He had
answered all the questions he could
remember and Col. Fielder told him
he would have 10 minutes to an
swer those questions or be ruled for
contempt of court. Witness caused
much amusement by describing how
he gave up the information. The OBJ
ject of the defense was to impeach
Dr.. Murray, who had testified that
the commission had intimidated no
witness.
Witness said that the schedule was