Evening star., 1938-11-22
Warning Kept
Busy by Woes,
Jury Is Told
Police 'Poy-Offs' and
Friends Demands
Are Related
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.

BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Tribulations Of Washington
numbers magnate, which included
paying of" policemen and warding
of mooching friends, were described
today to the jury in District Court
before Justice Bolitha j.. Laws.
hearing the income tax fraud case
against the Warning brothers and
two income tax consultants.
Emmitt Warning, head OF a num-
bers business which was taking in q
play" Of around $4,000, 900 a year,
was q worried man who never had
much fun, seldom INDUCED In an
evening out, wore inexpensive
clothes, lived modestly and spent no
money on woman companions, &C.
cording to a statement taken from
him by Internal Revenue agents.
The Government followed the
reading Of a transcript to the
Federal officers with a parade Of
witnesses who told Of his expendi-
lures in 1884 and 1885.
Among EmmittS business ventures
was grocery store in the 23OO block
Of l. street NV. He paid $4,000 for
its business and fixtures, according
to testimony.
$1,000 Held Paid on Contract.
Aaron Shapiro, a builder. testified
that Emmitt signed a contract on
September 10, 1885, for a house at
5000 Macomb street NV, paying
81 900 cash when the contract was
signed. Ofncials Of the Columbia
Permanent Building Association
testified that Emmitt made another
cash payment Of 1881 IL on October
IA Of that year and retired the re-
manning $500 Of q funded loan
during 1896.
Onicials Of various automobile
agencies described transactions
which Emmitt or persons repre-
sented by the Government to be his
emissaries made in 1885. Old cars
were traded in for new cars in most
instances. Witnesses testified that
Emmitt or Della Gosnell, who gave
an address in the $500 block Of K
street NV, which has been identi-
ned as the Warning numbers head
quarters, spent some $3,429 on four
automobiles in 1885.
The three. Warning brothers re-
turned as taxable incomes in 1895
approximately 1880 each.
Transcript Read to Jury.
The transcript Of the interview
describing Emmitt's difficulties as
head of a big numbers business was
read to the Jury by Assistant United
States Attorney John J. Wilson. The
| statement was taken at the Internal
Revenue Bureau May 3, 1887.
Assistant United States Attorney
Wilson, reading the questions and
the answers to the jury, brought out
that Emmitt was pressed on one
occasion to give the exact amount
Of the protection. He previously had
said, according to government wit
nesses, that 1t had amounted to $3.50
week in 1885 and approximately
double that sum In 1896. He now
said he didn't know just how much
1t had been.
When asked on this occasion about
protection, Emmitt said:
you mean police?"
"Yes," he was told.
IF I started to keep q record
every time paid one Of them"
The transcript showed this SEN
tence never was completed, but EN-
mitt added: "Well. $3.50 a week
is lot of money"
Regarding his personal life, EN-
mitt, according to the transcript,
told the Federal officers investigat-
ing his income:
"You know where I am every
night-at 5000 Macomb street. I
haven't been to q show for over
a year. I run into them every day,
people wanting money. When you
are working and they are not, your
friends always try to get money
out of you, and I would rather put
it down a sewer than give 1t to
most of them"
Questioned further, regarding his
personal expenses, Emmitt said: Il
don't 60 anywhere. don't buy the
best of clothes"
Asked whether girl friends cost
him much, Emmitt told the investi-
gators: II don't have no expenses
| with girls"
The chief executive Of the num-
bers business, which, according to
his books, showed gross profits Of
around $500, 900 for each Of the
years 1885 and 1896, said he and his
brothers, Leo and Charles (Rags).
shared and shared alike" They
didn't keep track Of how much
each brother drew In cash from the
safe from time to time, Emmitt said.
and If he drew out more than the
others it was not for personal lux
uries but "for business reasons"
Emmittt said, according to the
transcript, that he kept employees
on the pay roll when they were sick
and had one such at the moment.
Can't Explain Sum.
Asked by the Federal omcers to
explain why their investigation had
revealed n-deductible expendt-
lures Of $4,000 one year and ~, 900
another, not accounted for by the
income tax returns, Emmitt said:
II can't explain that additional
money you have there"
Nor could Emmitt explain, the
transcript showed, why on one oc-
casion he said he owed Eddie Killeen
about $1,000" and later said he
owed him $4,000 at the time Of
Killeen's death. Killeen, known as
q gambler, was killed by woman
In 1895.
John r. Cox, agent in charge Of
the washington ofiice of the Internal
Revenue Bureaus Intelligence
Once, who testified late yesterday,
told the court of q conversation he
had with Emmitt Warning on De-
cember 16, 1886.
II told him that I was working
on another case involving this