Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-08
STRONG PLEA FOR AUGUSTA.
BELFAST IMPROVED HIGHWAY
kRAFFMILLER TALK
NJECTS pep into
DAUCHERTY PROBE

Washington, May IA sudden re-
turn to the more lurid fields of its
inquiry was made today by the SEN
ate Daugherty investigating commit
tee.
M. s. Krafflniller. co-tenant with
Howard Warrington of the Little
green house on X street." in Wash
ington, during the early months of
the Harding administration, came
unheralded to the stand, to tell of
money payments. liquor deals and
liquor permits, all based on the
'closeness" Warrington was alleged
to have had TO former Attorney
General Daugherty. w. J. Burns,
chief of the bureau of investigation
of the Department of Justice. intro
duced q fighting phase to the in
qufry during examination as to the
Montana indictments against Sen
ator Wheeler, the Democratic prose-
cutor for the committee, in a half
hour of sharp questions and answers.
A sheaf of checks and a batch
of photostatic reproductions of other
checks, came into the Kraffmiler
examination, and the witness identi-
fed some of them as having been
made by him or passed under his
knowledge to Warrington. He testi-
fled that he came to Washington
upon the Harding inauguration, to
live with Warrington, as a sequel to
an acquaintanceship which began in
1920 when he gave Warrington, then
at Marion. o., some $4,000 or $15,-
600 to defray costs of President
Harding's front porch campaign.
In Washington, Kraffmiller said,
! h~ vNnt Il 100
$4,000 paid by the General Drug
mits and $4,000 furnished by j. Il.
Shever Company. of the same city,
for the same purpose.
Warrington, at whose home he
saw George Christian, then secretary
to President Harding, Comptroller
of the Currency Crisinger and Jess
w. Smith, the late companion of Mr.
Daugherty, would not "let him in"
on deals in New York affecting
liquor permits" Kraffmilier testi-
fed.
They did share. however, fees
paid by other concerns for represent
tation in tax controversies and ship
ping board claims. and Fred A. Cas-
key. another resident of the little
green house." got some portion of
u.
! The witness named various individ-
uals, including Will Orr. as having
/ some connection with the New York
| liquor permits, and said that Man
ington went to Louisiana and then
Mexico" when indictments were
brought against Orr.
Mr.. Burns testified that CASTOR Is.
Means, now agent of the committee,
was being Swallowed" by his in
structions. at the request of federal
| prosecutors in New York, but denied
that Bonner, the secret agent as
| signed to the work, had made away
with the diaries and documents
whose loss Means reported some
days ago.
| He conceded likewise that at for
mer Attorney General Daugherty's
request, last March he assigned
| Ralph Haley. a federal agent now
dead, to look up Senator Wheeler's
record but he denied with heat that
the Burns Detective Agency had
ever entered into the service of Geo.
b. Lockwood. secretary of the Re-
| publican National committee, inves-
| tigating Montana incidents which
have led to Senator Wheeler's IN
| dictment. Mr.. Lockwood and Mr..
Daugherty had discussed that inves-
tigation. he added, in his presence.