The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25
MORGAN SAYS
LIQUOR SHORT


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Justice at Washington, and Mer-
edith started to check the liquor
at the Federal Bldg, but found
the task to great and ordered
four prisoners from the Marion
County Jail to report this after
noon to move the cases of whisky
into piles of ten, so they could
be more easily inspected and
counted.
4. Representative La Guardia in
Washington told a Times staff cor
respondent he believed the bottles
still in storage here should be
opened. to determine whether they
actually contain liquor.
SiSnaigo said it was necessary to
rearrange the liquor before it can
be checked, because it is stored in
irregular piles.
To Make Sure
I'm going to make sure that |
am counting all there is, and that
it is liquor" he said.
Morgan said he sent men to Law
renceburg when the liquor was
brought to Indianapolis and that a
careful check was made by him, and
that the checks tailed.
Deputy Prohibition Administrator
A. r. Harris, asked about the rec
ords filed by Morgan, said he had
looked over them and found them
very vague"
He said the records showed some
liquor here and some at the dis
but gave no definite estimate
on how much actually was stored
in the Federal Bldg.
Morgan should have demanded a
receipt for the amount of whisky
stored here and entered it with his
records" Harris declared.
Ethan A. Miles, attorney for the
Anti-Saloon League, who was in
Harris office, said: THAT is what
Morgan should have done. Mr.. Har-
ris is perfectly right about it..
Oscar Holman, who was group
chief under Morgan, said he begged
Bert Morgan to send men to the dis
tillery when the liquor was being
brought to Indianapolis in order
that a check could be made on the
supply"
"He refused to do so" Holman
said. I'VE told me it might look as
though we were prying around try
ing to find out something about
somebody This was in direct con-
tradiction of Morgans statement.
Miles later said that if such a
thing was true it should be thor
oughly Investigated and the violators
should be prosecuted.
Mystery shrouded the appearance
Of David Nolan, know as Dynamite
Dave" special agent from the Treas
ury Depau ment. Nolan is one Of
the agents who worked up the Jack
Daniel conspiracy case in st. Louis.
Talks With Ward
He conferred with District Attor-
ney Ward and spoke as though he
had Just dropped in
Nolan remarked that it seemed to
be a very unique" coincidence that
Ward was in Chicago before the
Circuit Court arguing for the de-
struction of the liquor and at prac-
tically the same hour the charge
was made in Washington.
Ward said Pemus also was in Chi
cago Wednesday.
Meredith denied any amount Of
liquor as large as charged in Con
gress has been stolen, although he
admitted thai one Of the rooms in
" hch the whisky is stored has been
broken into twice.
Some Of the liquor, he said, he
believed was taken then.
He said there was no way to &C
curately determine what amount OF
the liquor was stolen, if any, due
to the fact that it was not checked
when first brought to the Federal
Bldg.
mo one knew how many cases
came into the building 1t was said
there were 1900 and that 200 OF
them were put upstairs and the re-
ma.nder in the basement" he
said
United States District Attorney
Albert Ward had them counted last
summer and | think he found about
/ 200 or so here"
Meredith said it would be practic-
ally impossible for an individual TO
take the liquor from the rooms, eth