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W"itness stated that he hia4t (Idered ,,m amd awards were m1ade b) vth i >ard to tirm.s not repre-cied by rnum, especially in the ease of al hol, and also from firms not rep sen:ed at all before the board. "Where would you exercise your eference?" "To those firws tlhat had repre ntatives and paid commissions. Asked particularly about Farnum itness said he wouid give him or ers, because he was a friend and had good liquors and "paid me." He admitted that the money paid made him give Farnum the prefer enee, upon direct question relating hereto. Witness stated that he paid Far num the $1,125 draft under the al eged agreement, and that there 'had een previous settlements between 'mslf and Farnum. ived Money from Farmum Direct Mr. Wylie stated that money had en passed between Farnum and mself at different places, including local hotel referred to on various asions in Farnum's room. The defence cross-examined on the ew matter brought out. Witness was ked what passed between himself d Farnum at the hotel. He stated hat 'be would ask Farnum to pay him is commission that Farnum usually paid him promptly, and that the $1,125 was for commissions, due wit ness. The schedule was written in a book belonging to Mr. Wylie, and was written down in a manner that no ne else could understand, it was tated. .Some ques ions by Col. Nelson ought out the following: "Has Farnum asked you for the eturn of the $1,125?" "Yes, this year." "What was the proposition?" "Just after Samuels' examination .e asked me to give him notes to cov r the amounts he had paid me." "How was the meeting arrang ed?" "He asked me by phone to come here." Witness stated that he told defend -t that he could not return the oney, and that Farnum suggested torneys for the medium of ex ange. Witness stated that he thought the efendant had received full value for services.* At 1 :101 o'clook the witness came own from the stand. The examina lien a}tegether lasted since yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock for two and a half hours, and this morning from :30 o'clock. .. L Thorpe was recalled and gave e testimony as to the documents -om the dispensary. This evidence was very dry and was for the pur oe of bringing in t'he matter of bids and awards to the various con , Mr. Thorpe 'having been the kkeeper. Statement by the Court. Judge Memminger announced, be re the jury was brought in, his rea as for admitting the secondary ev enee yesterday and stenographic eord -was made thereof. The rea ps in the main referred to the fact bf diligent search being made for he alleged draft, and that -therefore the State had exhausted the means f producing the original draft, hereby allowing contents of the raft to be testified to. Some of the Questions. The following are some of the utions asked Mr. Wylie by Mr. bey: M. Wylie, 'how long have you. own James S. Farnum? A. About e years, sir; five or six years. Q. How long prior to September 14 15 had you known him. A. You en.in 19067 Q. Yes, sir. A. I had know him wo or three years. Q. Had he been often or rarely be fore the board of directors. A. He ad been there often, sir, I think he was there at every 1 .eeting we had. Q. At every me' ing you had? A. es, sir. Q. Did you ever have any private transactions with him in regard to the business of t8he board ? A. Yes, Q.r On or about September 14. 1906, y ou or not receive any paper or trument in writing from him? A. do not knowy that I understand just xactly what you Q. Well, did you ever receive from im any draft for a payment of oney. A. Yes, sir. Q. When did you receive it from 7 A. I think it was on the 14th f September, sir. Q. What time of day? A. I do not ow that I could say, sir. Q. Was it before or after the ards were made on September 14? Why, it was after that, sir. Q. Was it before or after the or ing out of whiskey under con ets with the firms that. you have tified that he represented. A. Well, t-.that qustion is not very clear, Allr. .\bI cy. Some (d,t he I iu vk hazd alrei1y'be1 ordered,(. 1nd1(1l hadl nw. Ie I(.- h 'I' l himt ;o Illlat tiie ,-ome very large orders: some (ti it had been ordered: some had not. Q. On Spieniber 14 had any orders been given to him? A. Ye, sir1. Q. Had any awards been made to his houses or firms? A. Yes. sir. Q. Were they large or small? A. Some of them were large; some of them were small. Q. Have yon estimated or calen lated from the orders we read out yesterdav, the contracts and orders, too, how much it amounted to on .September 14? A. No, sir. I have not. Q. Can you tell how much in:o the hundreds of thousands of dollars it amount to? A. No, sir, I could not.! The Farnum Draft. Q. You say he gave you a draft; where was that at? Where did he give it to you? A. He gave it to me in Columbia. Q. What placeinColunibia? Atwhat place in Columbia did he give it to you? A. I think in the Jerome Hotel. Q. What did you do with the pa per, or the draft? A. I gave it to Mr. Samuels. Q. Where did you give it to Mr. .Samuels at? A. My recollection is that I gave it to him in Chester, when he got off the train. Q. What instructions -did you give to LNr. Samuels about it? A. I told him to have it eashed and give me the money; that I would see him in a day or two. Q. From there where did you go? A. I went home to Richburg. Q. Who signed it? A. Mr. Farnum signed it. Q. For how mueh money was it? A. Eleven hundred an-d twenty-five dollars. Q. Upon what firm or corporation or person was it adderssed to? Who was to pay it? A. The Consumers' Beer Bolig Establishment of Char leston. Q. What was the date of it? A. I think it was September 15. Q. He gave it to you, however, on what day? A. On the 14th. Q. When did you go back to Ches ter? A. I came back t'here-I can tell you the day of the week; i was Monday. Q. On Monday? A. Yes, sir, I think it was the 17th. Q. Well, when you got back, what did Samuels give you, if aiiythingl A. He gave me the money, $1,125. Q. What kind of money was it in what form-what bills? A. Well, it was in very large bills, sir. Q. Do you remember what the de nominations were? A. Most of them were $100 bills. Q. What did you do with the mon ey ? A. I put some of it in the Coin merial Bank. The cross-examination by Mr. Nel son was in part as follows: Q. Mr. Wyl-ie, you say you think that Mr. Farnum first approached you? A. Yes, sir. Q. How did he approach you! A. I, could not tell you, sir. Q. Did he come to you and say, 'Mr. Wylie, I will give you so much for your vote ?" A. No, sir. Q. Well, how did he get at you? A. Before I was on t:he board, sir. It started back before I was on the board, if you were to start at the first of it. Q. When did you first run? A. 1904. Q. When did you next run ? A. 1906. Q. When you first determined to run for a member of this board, had you then made up your mind to make all the graft you could get out of the dispensary? A. No, sir. Q. When did that first come into your head? A., At the time right close to the electrion. Q. 'Close to the election? A. Yes, sir. Q. Before the election you had made up your mind that you were going in there to get all yo~u could out of it? A. No, sir; I did not say that. Q. What did you say? A. I d.id not say that I had made up my mind to go in the4re and make all I could out of it. Q. When did you first make up your mind that you would make "al you could out of the dispensary ?" When did~ you first deterine ro make al you could out of it ? A. It was at the first meeting of the board. Q. When was the firs mee:ing of the board? A. On the 6th. Q. So at the very first meeting of the board you ma-de up your mind that you would make all you could out of it?i A. Yes, sir. Q. The first meeting of the com mission that you attended? I sup pose your commission from the Gov ~rnor was read? I say the first meet ing of the .commission you attended, all of you had your commissions? A. I suppose so. We woul not have had the meeting if we had not had the commissions. Q. And at the very first meeting you attended you made up your mind to disgrac this paper by accepting i.ra ft mi' rebate.z? A. NKo. ,ijc. .1 will nto! -av :hat. Q. W hat di 1 l v lI IIe . h ! . 11 had an idea that what I was g,et iII- wasn't any harm. Q. Yu did not considelr that you were being bribed ? A. I didn't eon sider so then. Q. You consider now that you were bribed ? A. Yes, sir. Q. What .brought that change over Vour minid ? A. I could not tell yol, sir. Q. Didn't you have as much sense in 1906 as you have now ? A. I wish I had had, sir. Q. Couid you tell then between right and wrong as much as now? A. No. sir. Q. What light has been brought to bear upon you? A. I could not tell vou. Q. You were in full possession of all your faculties in 1906? A. Yes, sir. Q. And you are to-day ? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Samuels Testifies. Henry Samuels, mayor of Chester, who was said by Wylie to have been the "go-between" in his alleged deal ings with Farnum, took the stand. After preliminary questions Mr. Samuels stated t;hat he was in Co lumbia on the dates when awards were made as indicated by the dates named by Col. Abney, who made the examination for the State. Mr. Sam nels named the houses he represented. He was agent under W. D. Roy. Referring to the date, September 14, the witness testified that he left here this afternoon with Wylie, t'he witness's testimony as to this cor responding with Mr. Wylie's. The witness told of receiving the draft for $1,125 and of having the same cashed at the Commercial Bank of Chester. He said that the money was paid in $100 bills, which 'he turned over to Mr. Wylie the fol lowing Monday. Mr. Samuels' testi monv as to the name signed to the draft was the same as heretofore given. He did not know before when the draft was drawn. That Samuels was to get this $1,125 for Wylie was again brought out by this witness. Having cashed the draft, Mr. Samuels said he 'phoned Wylie and was told to keep the money until Monday. This was not the first time Wylie g-ve him paper to cash. The witness stated that Wy"lie hal told him the $1,125 was for commissions for Mr. Far num. Mr. Samuels stated that he was employed by Mr. Farnum to go around the State to push certain brands of whiskey, that he had work ed for three weeks and had been set tled with in full. Mr. Samnuels ex plained the method of taking orders for the "Long Horn'' whiskey, this being practically as outlined by Mr. Wylie this morning. The defence sought to impeach the character of the witness by bringing out that he came to visit a notorious resident of Columbia, and that he played cards for money and for big stakes. Referring to his testimony before the commission the witness admitted receiving a check f'rom Wylie, but re eeived no "rake-off,'' the only com missions received being what he got from sales of his whiskey. The wit ness denied being threatened except that he was told by the investigating commission t'hat if he did not pro duce the checks de.posited in the Chester banks a rule would be issued to have him produce the checks or he would be arrested. The witness ad mitted getting additional checks in 1907, but t largest check was for $500 in 1909. He did not remember the cheeks or the time of receipt of them. Q. What were the cheeks for ? Were they commissions for services in 1906 ? A. No. Witness said lie would not go around the State to push "Long Horn'' until he got Wylie's permis sion. The checks that Samuels said he indorsed and collected were: March 23. 1906, .$1,575: September 15, $1, 123: Decemher 13, $1,300, on the Commercial P>ank: November 16, $83 onf Exchang~e Bank. 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