The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-08
SHADOWING
OF WHEELER
ISDISCIOSED
Federal Agent Assigned
At Request OF Daugh-
erty, Burns Says
EENATE'S INQUIRY
RETURNS TO LURID
Tenant Of X Street House
Tells Of Cash Payments
And Booze Deals
CHECKS IDENTIFIED
BY KRAFFMILLER
Witness Declares Many Thou
sands Paid Warrington For
Liquor Permits
EENATE'S INQUIRY
RETURNS TO LURID
CHECKS IDENTIFIED
BY KRAFFMILLER

WASHINGTON, May IA sudden
srturn to the more lurid fields of its in
@iiry was made today by the Senate
Daugherty Investigating committee.
NJ r. Eraffmiller, co-tenant with
Howard Warrington of the little green
house on & street" in Washington dur
h1g the early months Of the Harding ad-
eninistration, came unheralded to the
Gtand to tell of alleged money pay
nents, liquor deals and liquor permits.
all based on the "cIoseness' Manning
ton was alleged to have had for former
Attorney General Daugherty.
w. j. Burns, chief of the bureau Of
Investigation Of the department OF
justice, introduced fighting phase to
the inquiry during examination as to
the Montana indictments against Sena-
Cor Wheeler, the democratic prosecutor
&or the committee, in half-hour of sharp
questions and answers.
Cheeks Are Identified
Checks and photostatic reproductions
Ref other checks, came into the Kraft
miller examination and the witness
identified sDm6 of them as having been
made By him OF passed under his
knowledge ID Warrington. He testified
he came to Washington upon the Hard
ing inauguration, to live with Manning
ton as a sequel to an mountaineering
which began in 1920 when he gave Nam
nington, then at Marion, Ohio, some
$4,000 or $4,000 to defray costs Of
President Harling's front porch cam.
paign.
In Washington, Kraffmiller, said, he
paid Warrington $4,000 out Of $20,-
coo paid by the General Drug company
of Chicago for liquor permits and $780,
600 furnished by j. B. Shever company
Of Chicago, for the same purpose.
Warrington, at whose home, he said,
he saw George Christian, then secre-
tary to President Harding, Comptroller
of the Currency Crissinger and Jess
w. Smith, the late companion of Mr..
Daugherty, would not ''let him I'M on
deals in New York. affecting liquor
permits, KraffmiiIer testified.
Says Fees Shared
They did share, however, he said, the
fees paid by other concerns for repre-
sentation in tax controversies and ship
ping board claims, and Fred A. Caskey,
another resident of the little green
mousse, got some pOrt1On OF inc money
as legal fees. The witness named vari-
GUS individuals, including Will Orr, as
having some connection with the New
York liquor permits and said that Man
nington went to Louisiana and then
Mexico when indictments were brought
against Orr.
Mr.. Burns testified that CASTOR B.
Means, now agent of the committee,
was being shadowed' by his instruc-
ton at the request Of federal proseeu-
tors in New York. but denied that Bon
ner, the secret agent assigned to the
work, had made away with the diaries
and documents whose loss Means re-
ported some few days ago.
He conceded likewise that at former
Attorney General Daugherty's request
last March, he assigned Ralph Hateley,
a federal agent now dead, to look up
Senator Wheeler,s record, but he de-
MED with heat that the Burns Detec-
tive Agency had ever entered into the
service of George B. Lockwood, secre-
tsry of the republican national COM
mittee, in investigating Montana incl
dents which have led to Senator Wheel
er's indictment. Mr.. Lockwood and
Mr.. Daugherty had discussed that i'm
vestigation, he added, in his presence.