Year: 1876

the Prosecuting Attorney others hearing OF this and
fearing 70 be compromised made haste not 70 oe me
last IN the race, and the result was the HkRALn
correspondent able 10 announce oy telegraph on
Thursday night that the bottom bad fallen Out OF the
Ring organization and 20 outline


CONFESSIONS THAT BEEN MADE


On FRIDAY transpired that number or persons hau
agreed TO plead guilty on Saturday the names OF ocers
dsllcrs and rectiners who had agreed were known
To-day is said openly and denied by the persons
chiefly interested, that regular agreement has been
entered into between the government and he defend
ants named that the civil suits against the oncers dls
tilleTs and rectlers in which bondsmen are liable
shall be discontinued on condition that they testify all
they know without equivocaton or evasion as 70 the
Ring


The main object Of this is to get at the past transac
tons Of old Jake NunDemacher and those who have so
long screened him from justce-men who have hlth-
orto escaped indictment on account Of political
or social prominence, great wealth or personal
influence II IS talked about every day now that the
personal enemies of


EX-SENATOR CARPENTER


have been pushing the Grand Jury ndict that gen
tleman and many OF his friends and supporters
no reason why newspaper correspondent should al
feet mystery and ignorance subject Of this kind
simply because the Grand Jury have not passed on IT,
IL is common talk IN this city among the newspaper
men and officials, and this constant inJunc TO
crecy is mere nonsense. For two weeks II has been
known that persons interested the ruin OF Carpenter
been around trying TO obtain evidence connecting
him with the Whiskey Ring. and that they have sue
ceeded 80 lar as thisAmong other things that Fzgor
aid, gauger prince OF witnesses, himself under IN
detment is credited with having testified TO II c.
Payne Carpenters right hand man, having received
$3.50 out ofthe Whiskey Ring fund Scraps Of whis-
key Ring and political history, picked up here and
there, also indicate that anonymous letters without
number have been sent to the Grand Jury and prose
cutting attorney, offering TO prove all kind Of things
against the Carpenter crowd; but much or how
little has gone before the Grand Jury In the shape
OF testimony II is hard TO say All that 10
quite certain is, that very strong effort has been
made, and is making, 10 have Carpenter indicted; but
II has far failed although Carpenters assaants in
evidence sufficient to have him convicted any time
IL he so desires, and If he will but perform his duty
(which thore s every reason 10 suppose be has the
strongest intention of dong and submit such evidence
before the Grand Jury.


LINE OF pETEscE


This brings down to the present time, in more detail
the history OF the Whiskey Ring prosecutions out
lined in the HERALD dispatches and IT now remains
only 10 give what was promised at the commencement
Of thus report the statement of the probable line OF de-
itfca, Justification. ofthe disters happened to
learn Of IL In this wise dlsier said, two weeks
ago. that he intended to make clean breast OF the en-
tire Ring workings If others made i necessary but
should the necessity not arise, he intended 10 keep
quiet When distllers began TO negotiate for terms
with the government he at FIRST refused to acknowledge
anything but at length said, in substance


This thing has got to come out now, and we may as
well make clean breast OF IL confess that have
stolen from the government II you call It stealing
but don't. What have taken from the government
has simply been 20 equalize what have been obliged
10 pay to the or agents or officers Of
the government IN the shape OF blackmaiL"


"HowYp


'well In this way;--The 6fncers would come and
say, oh here Is mistake IN the product Of such and
such day, and would look at his figures and see
that his figures and disagreed and he was wrong
and were right and We would say so; but the law
his side and what good there in protest.
ingS The first thing would know assessment
received We were TO pay the government SO much
unpaid tax many gallons, such and such q
date Don't you cheaper for TO pay the
officer say the price OF BARREL to keep quiet than
TO make noise and have TO pay the value Of good
many barrelsf This is truly how the frauds on the
government began


NO APPEAL


But these subordinate officers could have done moth
ing without higher authority"


s'Thats where the trouble comes In. II could
have appealed IL would have been all right; but when
we communicated with the higher officers
to get into trouble and began TO find out the
cheapest, easiest and most comfortable way out Of
trouble to sacrifice the price OF barrel OF whskey
whenever they made out there was difference IN our
accounts. In time the occasional blackmail became a
regular tribute to the extent Of the price Of thousands
OF barrels. y