The Dolores star., 1924-03-28
LIQUOR PERMITS
COST 100000
"eSS SAYS SEVERAL SHARED
IN SPLIT OF MONEY FOR
WAREHOUSE LIQUOR
RUM CRAFT IS Barred
oAuGHERTY INVOLVED TEST.
moNY OFFERED BY DRUG
OFFICIAL ON STAND

Washington.-A 100000 whisky
deai-the biggest yet-was uncorked
Dy the Daughcrty investigating COM
h'ittee John Goroni, vice president of
the Alps Drug Company, told IA story
OF now he, the late Jess w Smith
bumper and friends" of Attorney Cen
er''l Daugherty, and Howard II. Man
hlnetoh' one of the occupants of the
little green house on X street had he
said' shared in the split" which
accompanied the withdrawn of whisky
from federal warehouses for sale To
J"otleggers
AS with previous testimony Of the
sort, 1t was brought no nearer to At
t"rney General Daugherty himself than
these two friends.
Toroni told the committee some of
the things which, he said did not come
out when he was tried and acquitted
OF conspiracy to violate the prohibi-
tion law in New York. Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty in his comment on the
testimony, pointed out that he himself
was in no way embarrassed or impli-
Gated"
Goronis whis sky deal" story
splashcd from thewitness stand in a
hectic day marked by passing of the
Tie to Mr.. Daugherty's counsel by
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana.
The latter charged that there was con
tinual 'besmirching" of committee wit
nesseS and that the committee was be-
ing denied evidence from the Ohio
bank of which Mr.. DauGherty's brother
Nal is president, while Senator Ash
urst, Democrat, Arizona, said Howard
Warrington, mentioned in Goroni's
story and now reported in Paris, had
been spirited away" Mr. Daugher-
tvs counsel after Il bitter scene in
which the audience loudly applauded
Senator Wheeler, promised their hest
efforts" to produce Warrington.
More $1,000 bills figured in Goroni's s
story of the whisky transaction. He
bills of that denomination to w. A.
Orr of New York, previously connect
ed with the Dempsey Carpenter fight
film deal" and also S150,000 to
Owen Il. Murphy, another New York
politician. The payments, GorOni said,
were at the rate of SO case for per-
mits obtained to get whisky into boot
leggers' hands. About 10000 or 10000
cases went through" Goroni said, al
though he told of paying only 100000.
Orr told him, Goroni said that Man
nington received Il fee of 50 a case,
some of which went TO Jess Smith, to
whom he said he was introduced by
Orr, as he was friend of Mr.. Daugh-
crty. Warrington had paid back about
$40, 1000 or $4,000, Goroni said he was
told. for failing to procure liquor
Withdrawals contracted for.
The division of the whisky fee of
S15 ii case, according to GOroni, was
S. to Warrington. 81 to the druggist,
81 to himself, 81 to the prohibition di-
rector, so cents to a lawyer named
L'Esperancc, and the balance divided
between Orr and Murphy.
GOroni said he was told Warrington
had to divide his 50 portion of the fee
"three ways" with one portion going
to Smith.
Harold l.. Hart was identified as
the prohibition director for New York
then in office, in 1921, and he was one
or the defendants subsequently ac
quilted with Goroni in conspiracy
prosecutions. LEsperance was identi
fled as friend of United States Dis
trict Attorney Hayward and now Il
special assistant to Attorney General
Daugherty in New York.