Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-13
BURNS SLEUTHT0
UNCOVER GRAF 7
IN CAROLINA
Detective Reed Is Expected to
Produce Dictagraph Testi-
mony This Afternoon.

AUGUSTA, GA. July i3.-EF Rees
operative for William j. Burns. tine
nous detective, is expected lste ,b
afternoon to unfold the details of H.
system of grating and corruption that
Detective Burns and Thomas 3 Fag.
or, the Atlanta attorney. charge as.,
existed in the South Carolina .5ri...i
during the period that Governor f.,,.
l. Blease has been a factor in SOM,
Carolina affairs. Mr.. Fielder io,ja,-,...
assurances that Detective Rceo.. I'll
closures would be far more sepsstfor..,
than any evidence yet presented IN ~
special committee of the South r.ro
lima legislature investigating The st.
state dispensary system.
Reed spent several months i'm Sou,
Carolina gathering evidence for =.
Burns agency that had been emp'o,.e5
by Mr. Fielder to probe the condpot ~
Governor Blease. Hub" Evans for,,..
d'spensary commissioner whom Rleaas
represented as attorney. and others j..
sociated with them Much If this al.
dence was secured by use of the df.t,.
graph and this prompted Datacti,,
Reed Yesterday to demonstrate m ta.
investigating committee how the dfets
graph works, in order that When ~
dictagraph evidence was introduces
the committee would better understand
t.
Committee Waits For Big Evidsno.
The investigating committee was +,
session today from 10 to Il o'cloc1 I'M.
practically nothing was done durirs
those two hours it being announce the
committee was waiting on an impor.
tant bit of evidence The character ~
this evidence was not disclosed De-
tective Burns and Attorney Fielder ,1era
present in the court room during tDs-
period Mr.. Fielder declared that he
had the goods on Blease" and proposed
TO show him up by undisputable er-
dence as a CRATER of the boldest char
acter"
Mayor John P. Grace of Charleston.
who openly charged Governor Bleasa
with securing graft money from
Charleston blind tigers, is here. IS
ATTORNEY Stevenson. Of Cheraw. VINO
was associated with Mr.. Fielder in the
dispensary cases. 1t is probable that
the hearing viii continue through Mon
day and possibly longer.
Burns Declares sease Is Crater.
Detective Burns was on the stand
when the session adjourned last night
and created a sensation when he charg-
ed that Governor Blease both as stare
senator and as governor. had grated
and that he had dictagraph evidence
to substantiate the charge. Represen-
tative Cary, one of the Investigating
committee asked
viii your records (referring @ the
dictagraph evidence show that Cole
L. Blease has grated as senator and
governor under the liquor laws of South
Carolina 2" u
Yes they will" replied Burns
Following his charge yesterday after
noon. that Hub" Evans, accompanied
by Blease. then his lawyer, had been
paid $4,000 by an Atlanta whisky deal
er as rebates on whisky orders while
Evans was dispensary commissions
Mr.. Fielder charged that Bleaso con
trolled legislative syndicate while
state senator; that the Syndicate az
manded money to block legislation
that money was collected from rail-
roads for killing anti-rairoad bills and
that while governor Blease has grant
ed pardons for which the "syndieate'
has been paid large sums one from
Charleston having cost $1,000. Bluen-
thai & Bickert was the former Atlanta
whisky house named by Fielder as nav
ing paid Evans the $4,000 rebates
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