San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-08
DRY POLICIES
OF DAUGHERTY
REGIME AIRED
Witness Brings New String
Of Charges Of Illicit
Brewing.
YELLOWLEY ON STAND
Inquiry Delves Into Mail
Fraud Case Concern
ing Dausherty.

Washington, ID. c., April S.-Prohi.
L.tioG enforcement policies under the
administrator of Attorney General
Daugncrty continued the main obiec-
tive Of the Daugherty investigating
committee today although short side
excursions were taken into n mail
fraud case in Boston and the Old
Hickory Powder plant controversy in
Tennessee.
After Brice +. Armstrong. Chi
cago prohibition agent had brought in
a new string of charges about illicit
brewing and protected bootlegging in
the Illinois district, i. C.. Yellowley.
chief of the prohibition units general
agents. was called 10 the stand and
submitted some of the official records
asked for b. the committeeman.
Adjo .rnment was taken until to-
morrow b:Ioic senator's had begun
tLeir detailed examination of the wit
ness.
The O'd Hickory case was brought
into the testimony by George w.
Stock. Department Of Justice ac-
countant who not only declared the
Dupont interests had led the depart
nitnt to accept inadequate advices. of
the property, but charged that conf
dental data gathered by him last
summer as basis for prosecution had
been turned over to the Dupont law
gers.
Sock also asserted that he had been
told by Fl. V. Green of Boston, whose
stock transactions were being investi-
CARED under the ran fraud law. that
Harry Nj Daugherty served as his
attorney before entering the cabinet.
Th're was no federal prosecution in
the case, the witness SAID. although he
had favored one.
Armstrong First Witness.
Armstrong. who testified at length
at the Monday hearing Of the com
mittee, was the. first witness at the
Tuesday session. One of the com
plants lodged by Armstrong was that
the Western brewery case" WIS nolle
pressed on orders from the Depart
ment of Justice in Washington. al
though the local investigators believed
the case should be pressed.
Armstrong said he and other agents
had seized eighteen balf-barrels of =
per cent beer from the brewery and
recommended prosecution. w. q. Pot
ter. United States attorney ut East
st. Louis. ILL.,. the witness said, told
him that he had instructions from the
department TO drop the case and that
was done.
1t was stated by the secretary OF
the brewery company at the time.
Armstrong added. that $1,000 "offcr
in settlement" had been accepted by
the government.
The witness told also OF failures
to prosecute i'm the Garden CITY brew
cry case and of efforts made TO re-
move him as enforcement agent be-
cause he would not "stop buy IL
quor at saloons they" did not want
prosecuted.
Armstrong estimated that he had
rcported on zone thousand or fifteen
hundred cases. but has never been
called ms n witness in criminal case
until six months ago. The eases. for
the most mart. went THROUGH with
.smaU fines, th,, witness said.
Democrat i'm Office.
Asked who the federal prosecutor
was in these eases Armstrong said
that limited States District Attorney
C'line or Ch;cago n Democrotic hold
ovcr was in Office most of the time.
He EXPRESSED tbe oninion that Clyne
had been akent in- Inv the Republican
adm;nistrat;on becanse the Chicago
hra,rnry :. r;nn. feIt tbov conlJ handle
Sbari;c cIrne wv ''' ' "
Snaok;nS of ;niunction proceedings
bandIeJ hy snac;ai Assistant httornev
Gonnroi St;J5Isiauff and hi assist
ant Sr,mst Krmz Armstrong said
tho, boJ condncteJ ,bc case So ne 10
sdcIor Service LONG enoucL 70 let the
or;a;na, orno,s nat o,,t The witness
Joni,nad ~ ,roul1 III hc dciays of two
or three years in "closing up" these