Evening star., 1924-06-08
WICkERSHAM TO AID
; DAUGHERTY PROBERS
Will Conduct Appeal From Court
Decision Curbing Power
y of Committee.
! REMUS' TESTIMONY UPHELD
Checks for $515,000 Shown-Some
initiated 81. S."

Announcement that the Senate
Daugherty committee had engaged
E5George w. Wickersham, former At
torney General, as counsel to conduct
the committees appeal from the de-
session of the federal district court at
5 Cincinnati, freeing NJ. S. Dangherty
from the necessity of appearing as
witness, under committee subpoena,
fswas made last night by Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, the
committee prosecutor.
Important corroboration of the
:. story told by George Remus, mil
lionairc Cincinnati bootlegger, con-
TgcerninS the payment of huge sums
ssfor the protection of the Department
of Justice, has been placed in the
hands of the Investigating committee.
Cancelled Checks for S515,OOO.
Sitting yesterday in executive ses-
%son. members of the committee eX-
..amined cancelled checks amounting
> to S5l5 5000, each of them signed by
nRemuS and bearing stamp showing
that it. had been caShed by himself
or one of his agents Each of these
& checks, Remus insists. represents a
payment which he made to Stave off
prosecution.
The checks range in amount from
$4,000 to $4,000 More important
than the vouchers themselves, how
sscver. was the fact that items aggre-
eating S295,000 were found to bear
the penciled memorandum j. s.,
which RemuS asserts was his private
mark TO show that the money was
turned over to Jesse Smith, who, the
evidence before the committee shows,
was second only to Daugherty in the
ahepartment of Justice.
r So important We're the disclosures
"A sought
sqinterview with Attorney General
Stone to seek his assistance in future
invest ga tionS.
Studies Mrs. Remus' Case.
In this connection, Mrs. Remus is
ready to become government wit
ness. Recently, however, she herself
has been indicted for alleged com
plicity in the deals of her husband.
She wants immunity and has signitied
&that if she gets it she Will tell the
whole story so far as she knows it,
&corroborating her husband on sew
eral important particulars. Whether
isuch a waiver will be granted to her
sis a question which the Attorney
General will himself have to decide.
1t is understood that the initials
II. S" are not the only ones found
on the checks. Other memoranda
were found indicating payments to
persons in New YorkCity who pre-
eNiouSly have been mentioned in con-
nection with the liquor investigation.
r. Two checks for $4,000 each were
found to be dated in January, 1921,
shortly before the Harding admins
tration came into office.
Phone Calls Probed.
- The committee has been told that
at that time Remus was facing a
prosecution in Chicago and an eX-
haustive inquiry is to be made to
determine what happened to the
charges. The committee has also re-
@ceived important statements relating
to alleged telephone conversations
which are said to have taken place
k.between a Remus agent. a man other
than Smith. who occupied an inn
rortant position in the Department of
Justice.
Those new developments have made
il impossible to stop the work of the
committee with the adjournment of
Congress. Shortly after the conven-
*tions, the committee will reassemble
in Washington to take further evil
dence. Al this time, Attorney Cen
oral stone will be given an oppor-
tunity to present such witnesses from
sthe department TO clear up the wrong
impression which he says have been
already taken. The Remus matter
will also be concluded at that time,
after which Senator Wheeler will
draft report.
Gilbert Contradicts Means.
The committee held a brief session
sfrom Parker Gilbert. assistant sec
retary of the Treasury, denying that
he had ever met CASTOR Means, as
the latter testified.
Thomas w. Miller, alien property
custodian, swore Friday that Means
had talked with Gilbert In his Office
.about Rex Sheldon, who was named
as the man through whom the Re
publican National Committee was to
be supplied with funds in return for
liquor permits.
The letter from Mr.. Gilbert reads:
IT notice that CASTOR Means, in his
absurd testimony before the Wheeler
committee, states that he talked with
me in the fall of 1922, and gives
what purports to be the substance
of Il conversation with me. What he
says is of no particular Importance,
~but the fact is. as | told you last
Sunday that | never talked with
= Means on any subject or at any
time: that Oh the one occasion when
Means tried to get me to talk to
him through Col. Miller / fatty re-
fused to see him. and told Miller that
D.. I regarded him a. a crook, and would
have no dealings with him under
any conditions, and that the first
time I ever saw him was about six
weeks ago. when he went by as
was talking to John Adams in the
lobby of the Wardman Park Hotel.
Mr. Gilbert offered to appear before
sgthe comittee to testify if further
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