Evening star., 1924-04-21
BEST "RAID" LIQUOR
GIFT TO OFFICIALS.
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Bunch. he said. was spread out on
the floor in the office of the bureau
of investigation and the good liquor
taken out and put in the safe. while
the bad was taken to the cellar" .
He saw the performance. he said,
and an agent named Alden and
Grover Williams, secretary to the
chief" did the work.
Bunch. he said. was stalled off,
when he tried to get back. the Iiquor
with a court order.
Under cross-examination Boucher
said he was angry" about his dis
charge. but got over it,
Bunch. who said he was a Wash
ington liquor dealer until the Dis
trict of Columbia went dry" then
told the committee Of the seizure
of more than 100 cases Of liquor be-
longing TO him in October. 1918. A
court order directed that the whisky
be returned to him in April, 1922. he
said.
Did you get it," asked Chairman
NO, sir said Bunch T never
got u bottle
Quotes Burns I'm Case
W. ]. Burns had told him that the
seized whisky was gone" Bunch
said. and 'passed the buck" by send
ing him TO the Treasury Depart
ment
Bunch added that his attorney. for
mer Judge Wright, had ''all the rec
ords" as to how this : liquor was
hauled away" from the Department of
Justice and delivered TO people all
over town.
In his search for his whisky. the
Duckstein, one of the confidential men
for +. r. Mclean, Washington pub
Usher, and got proposition for
return of the liquor. but refused ii.
Ed. McLean's house got the ma
jority of this whisky" Bunch asserted.
'and l understand this fellow GAlett
got some of it"
II wish you wouldn't volunteer such
statements" put in Senator Jones.
from Washington.
source of Information.
who told you it went to McLean's
Il was told that by the man who
hauled it from the warehouse" Bunch
replied.
He said he had written three letters
to President Harding and two to
President Coolidge about the matter
J. Il. wilkins. a guard at Atlanta
penitentiary, experimenting the pris-
on school, was questioned by the
committee about the drug traffic
there.
Il found drugs were being brought
in" wilkins said Seemingly, they
were were used all over the prison"
He reported it to j. z. Dyche, then
the warden, wilkins said.
Says Smuggling Continues.
There hasn't been any change
wilkins said. ''The drugs are still
going in"
George Remus. a millionaire boot
Iegger' from Ohio, has a private
room and bath in hospital section
of the prison, the witness went on,
with privately served meals, from the
"officials'Smess" There are two other
"millionaires" in Atlanta, he asserted,
and other prisoners who inquired
about the privileges were told they
could get the same treatment II they
'shad the money"
"Remus now has a. pass which al
lows him all over the institution he
said, "eats at the hospital and sleeps
at the isolation apartment
Il Judge from your testimony these
men pay money for these privileges?"
Senator Jones said.
Rumors of Payments.
81 can't say. 1t is rumored the
money goes to officials, and tips to
walters and cooks" wilkins said. "It
don't see how they could get these
without official sanction"
The deputy warden would have re-
sponsibility for conditions Wilkins
said and he himself never complained.
''The fellow who has the most
political pull or influential friends
outside has the best treatment" Will
kins went on. The deputy warden,
Fletcher, came there from Leaven-
worth.
Things are in very bad condition
and have been worse during this ad-
he added. "I have been
trying to get out for some time. /
was suspended on April 16.''
Huston Thompson, chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission, was called
to the stand and questioned about
the attitude of the Justice Depart
ment toward antitrust cases report
ed from the Trade Commission.
Calls Daughefty Inactive.
The, commission chairman said the
Department of Justice under Harry
M. Daugherty had not been active in
pressing anti trust cases originating g
before the commission. particularly
the "tebacco caSean ,audnt6afN he bad