San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-16
KNEW ABOUT
INDICTMENT
! OF WHEELER
Says Justice Department
Agents Gathered Data j
on Charge.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Says Palmer Scared to
Death" After Meeting !
With Daugherty. 81
SMITH HANDLED CASH
Says All Knew Naming
ton and Smith Repre-
| sented Daugherty."
SMITH HANDLED CASH

Washington. ID. c., April 16.-New
charges of crookedness in the Depart
ment of Justice, this time reaching up
to Harry NJ. Daugherty himself. were
brought before the Daugherty investi-
eating committee today by CASTOR
b. Means, former department agent
and man of many connections.
lie testified that jess w. Smith on
the night before he committed suicide
in the Daugherty apartment, here
| asked Means to return" S20O,000 to
New York whiskey ring.
Didn't Smith tell you he had made
a division with the attorney general
and the attorney general wouldn't re-
turn it!' asked Senator Wheeler, the
committee prosecutor.
He did, replied the witness.
Means also declared Smith had told
him that Daugherty knew he could in
dict A. Mitchell Palmer. attorney
general under the Wilson administra-
ton, but decided not TO because he
wanted to "blackmail- him into using
his influence in Congress. He de-
scribed a meeting between Daugherty
and Palmer from which he said the
latter emerged scared to death at
the proposition Daugherty had put up
TO HIM.
Congressman Were "Probed..
Switching to the indictment of
Senator Wheeler in Montana the wit
ness asserted he had information not
heretofore disclosed regarding the ac-
tivities of the Department of Justice
in the case. The men sent from Wash
ington who really did the work of col
Letting evidence, he said, had worked
under cover and their identity had
not been revealed.
During the Daugherty impeachment
proceedings in the House more than
year ago. Means said he knew de-
partment of Justice agents had "inves-
tigpted" Representative Woodruff
and other members of Congress.
did Daugherty tell you to take
orders from Jess Smith," asked Sem
ator Wheeler.
He told me tn do anything Jess
Smith ordered me to do. And he said
he liked me because l never LET my
left hand know what my right hand
was doing"
How did Jess Smith handle the
money y
I'm a roll-the most / ever saw
him have was s100,0OO-I brought
that TO him.
How much did you pay him al
together?-
Brings In Warrington.
"Oh. anywhere from S225.00O to
S250,00O. The night before he died,
Smith told me he wanted me to re-
turn some money to New York boot
leggers. / wouldn't have anything TO
do with it and told him to see their
lawyers.
"Maningtoh on other deals. did
wanted 100000. Everybody knew
Warrington and Smith represented the
attorney general in the whiskey per-
mits.'
Il wish you'd be a little more par
ticular." Senator Jones, Republican,,
Washington. demonstrated.
Il mean everybody in the whiskey
ring. viii Orr, Tom Fielder, John
Gorini.- said Means.
Senator Wheeler then brought up
the subject of his own Indictment
in Montana.
Mr.. Daugherty says he had nOth-
ing to do with my indictment, he
observed.
"Oh. Burns told me he had advised
Daugherty against getting that indlet-
ment weeks ago" Means said. The
attorney general went ahead with II
against his advice.
DO You knew anything Of searches
OF Senate offices during the tarif
fight?-
Watched Tariff Experts.
we had the Whole tariff commis-
sion under surveillance. We followed
up all the experts, and gave reports
ON il 10 the chairman Of The commits
sion and to Mr.. FurdRey over in the
House. had four or five men help-
rg.-
What did the department want TO
fiad Outs~ nsked senator Jones.
~cne thinT, some Jaaane>c IMPORT
ers wanted special rstc. and one q
the commission experts was acuisiiy
employed by a japanese rcncers. An
other expert WIS dealing With iae
sugar crowd