Evening star., 1925-09-17
JONES Jury TO SEE
/ SECRET j. S. FILES
Admitted After Conference in
Baltimore Court-Haynes
Witness.
Special DISPATCH TO The Star.

Records of the Internal Revenue De
partment at Washington were In
troduced in the trial this morning Il!
United States Court of Winfield Jones
N T. Jones. NJ. II. Caro-, lsadore
CHASER and, Simon kellner. on trial
charged with illegal diversion OF
alcohol a proprietorS of the Maryland
Drug and Chemical Co. of Baltimore
raided by prohibition authorities last
March.
The records were brought to the
court by w. B. Andrews. assistant
chief of the field force of the Internal
Revenue Department at Washington
When placed on the stand. Mr.
Andrews said all records of the de
partment were OF a confidential ma
ture. and he did not think he had the
authority to make them public in
court. Judge Soper then asked at
torneys for the defense what they ex-
pected to do so, and. after short con
ference, directed Mr.. Andrews to pro
duCe the records. with the remark,
I'VE will assume responsibility.
L. S. Witness Grilled.
Robert II. Mcneil of Washington
of the defense counsel then used the
records in the cross examination of
William Cohen, another of the de
PENDANTS, who had pleaded guilty and
is being used by the Government in
making It's case against the five Wash
ingtonians on trial.
Under Grueling by Mr.. Mcneil
Cohen admitted that he had made a
false affidavit in an attempt to regain
his permit to withdraw alcohol which
had been revoked by the department.
According to the records as read by
Mr.. Mcneil, Cohen declared that his
business represented an investment OF
$4,000 and that he was losing at the
rate of 81 900 a month by being unable
TO supply his trade with toilet and
hair tonic preparations. Under ques-
tioning by Mr. McNeill he admitted
that only about two or three barrels
out of an average shipment of 20 was
used in the manufacture of these
preparations and that the ha was
sold to the bootleg trade.
Prohibition Commissioner Roy A.
HAYNES and several other officials Of
the Treasury Department are eX-
pected to be called to the stand late
today.
Point Won by Defense.
The defense scored a point yester-
day afternoon when Robert r. Car
man OF counsel for the Jones brothers
had read into the record a letter from
y. T. Jones to Jesse T.. Baker, as
superintendent of the Maryland Drug
and Chemical Co.. under date of Au-
gust 9. 1924 in which Jones warned
Baker to be very careful of the alco
hol in the plant. and not allow the
KEYS TO the vault in which il was kept
to be out of his possession at any
time. Baker acknowledged receiving
the letter.
Harry y. Fox, an employe of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Co. of Washington, read a record OF
long distance calls from Jones
brothers and the Caro- Flavoring Co.
to the plant of the Marylan nd Drug and
Chemical Co, William Cohen. man
ager. and Joseph Lerner, alleged
hootlegger. These calls were made
almost daily.
William Cohen, who with the Baker
brothers has pleaded guilty, Yesterday
testified he was running the Standard
Drug Co. at "a South Charles street.
holding A permit for withdra wal of
specially denatured alcohol when he
received a long distance call from NJ.
H. Caro- of Washington advising him
that his permit had been revoked and
that If he wanted it restored he Caro-
could help him to get 1t.
Cohen said this was the first he
had heard of his permit being revoked.
went to Washington the same night,
which was in March, 1924. and met
Caro- a his store at $40 Pennsylvania
avenue. Caro-, he said told him that
he could get the permit restored
through Col. Winfield Jones. who had
a brother in Atlanta that had great
influence with the Government.
Tells of Plants Sale.
Cohen said he was introduced to
the Jones brothers by Caro- in June
and had conversation with them
about getting back his permit, and
after being led to believe that this
could not be done, he sold the busi-
ness to the Jones brothers for $4,000,
after they had made a trip here and
inspected the property. On the way
back from Washington, where he
went to collect the $4,000 he said he
gave n. T. Jones the $4,000 for %
per cent interest in the firm, with
Caro- getting a like interest for get
ting the Jones brothers interested in
the case, and the Jones brothers re-
tanning a so per cent interest
According TO the Joneses. Cohen
said it would cost about SIS 900 TO
have the permit restored and then
only by being issued in their name.
Later, he said. he sold half of his
ington, and when the firm needed
some money in fixing up the plant
one of the Joneses sold half of Caros
interest to Simon kellner also of
Washington.
Shortly after starting up again
Caro-. Glasser and kellner came to
Baltimore and introduced Joseph
Lerner to him. Cohen testified who
gave him an order for some alcohol.
l. Il
hootleGgers came over and threatened
TO tell if they were not sold some of
the alcohol, and in order to keep
them quiet some small lots of four
or five barrels were sold to them
The alcohol, Cohen said. was bought
at 10 cents gallon and resold to
bootleggers at from $40 to s3, 81
and s. a gallon.
Strange Mr.. Packard"
After Revenue Agent Nolan had
made an inspection of the books and
found a discrepancy of some 100 gal
Ions of alcohol. Cohen said, he went
Z to Washington with Baker and to-
gether they went to see Caro- and
explained the situation. Caro-, Cohen
said, told them not to worry that he
could fix that all right, and made an
engagement for them to meet MIR.
& Packard" said to be a prohibition
fagent who could fix It up with Nolan.
& Cohen and Baker were introduced
sto Mr.. Packard by Caro-. who explain
led that Mr.. Packard could fix things
sall right and loaned them his machine
to bring Packard to Baltimore, so he
could look over the books. They re-
turned to Baltimore that night and
Packard, after looking over the books,
said it was all right, and he would
agree to have things fixed for $500. of
which he was to give Nolan $500 and
keep 500 for himself. Cohen said he