Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-26
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United States Attorney L. Lowry
Humes.
e. Lowry Humes Federal attorney
went before Judge w. II. Thompson In
the Federal court to-day and asked
that the contempt proceedings against
Walter J. Damn be withdrawn.
Damn, he said, had consented to tell
the grand jury investigating the al
legged political contributions of the
United States Brewers Association and
other brewery associations all he
knew concerning a letter Damn is
said to have found while pressing a
coat in the tailor shop where he is
employed. This letter, according to
the Federal authorities had to do with
a 5000 contribution and brought be-
fore the jury the name of an impor-
tant brewery official
Last night the grand jury inquiry
into brewery activities adjourned to
Monday and the court contempt pro-
ceedings were put off further until
next Friday. Humes was contem-
plating action under the penal code
governing tampering with witnesses.
Charles f. Ettla, secretary of the
Pennsylvania Brewers Association
looking very i'll and belying the grand
iury's suspicious on which a bench
warrant was issued for his arrest yes
terday, in the belief that he was feign-
ing illness, appeared before the grand
Jury, and afterward, to the surprise of
all. was not hailed into court, as the
other officers had been, on contempt
proceedings.
Besides Ettla and Miss Gallagher,
A. W. Brockmeyer, secretary to Ed
ward A. Schmidt treasurer of the
Pennsylvania Brewers Association, APP
peared before the grand jury.
Humes Asks POstponement
Almost q alSiOp- tbp brpatb n CounSpl
for the brewery associations, Federal
Prosecutor Humes appeared before
Judge W. II. S. Thomson, in the United
States Court, at the time fixed for final
argument on the contempt proceed
ings against John Gardiner, president,
the Pennsylvania Brewers Association,
Philadelphians. and Gustav w. Lem
beck, of Jersey City, treasurer of the
United States Brewers Association.
and asked a postponement until next
week.
Hugh F. Fox. of New York city, sec
retary of the United Brewers Asso-
citation, was committed to Jail for con-
tempt on Wednesday evening and re-
leased on a writ of habeas corpus on
Thursday morning. Argument on the
writ was set for next Tuesday morn
ing.
Judge Thomson fixed next Friday
morning at 10 o'clock for arguments
on all four witnesses accused of con-
tempt in failing to produce records.
HumeS then proposed that counsel
agree to permit a representative of
the Department of Justice access to
files in the offices of the United Brew
ers' Association in New York city and
Treasurer Lembecks Office in Jersey
City. the authorization to be dis
patched at once by telegraph.
There was objection and the gov
ernments request was latly turned
down.
Mr.. Ettlas examination before the
grand jury and that of Secretary
BroCkmeyer was brief. The former
appeared twice, the first time produc-
ing a large manila envelope filled with
records. That Etta's testimony was
more to his liking than that of any of
the other brewery association officers
the federal prosecutor plainly indi-
Gated.
Miss Gallagher Faces Jury Twice
Miss Gallagher was before the grand
jury an hour and a half, or longer than
any witness vet called. She was re-
called in the late afternoon, the last
time for questioning on the alleged
kidnapping by Mulvihill.
After her long ordeal in the morn
ing the girl emerged weeping copiously
and bordering on collapse She went