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JOE WfYLIE rFELLS OF RE1> A11-S9 (Continued from page three.) rangement made by the members of the board with these people. I don't recall Rawlinson collecting but one time. Wylie identified his :.-tes taAen at the time at the Columbia hotel. Black and Rawlinson were present. These. notes indicated the purchases to' be made the following day. There were no bids or samples before the mem bers of the board when they agreed what to buy. They had formally list ed the bids. On the margin of these sheets of paper, containing names of houses to which purchases would be awarded, there wAs on each er.try an initial "B," "W," and "R." Wylie testified that these initials were the members of the board who were to collect graft from certain houses. H. Rosenthal & Sons was the house from which Raw linson collected rebate. Rawlinson paid Wylie part of it. Wylie's "friends" among the liquor houses were: Grabfelder, Cranston, Farnum's houses, Samuels, Roy, Garret, several beer houses and the White Seal cham pagne company. As soon as he saw Black and Raw linson he paid them their part of what he got. "Was M. A. Goodman a party to this agreement?" "He was.(' Mr. Lyon then presented a check from Goodman to Wylie which Wylie could not iden tify; he had no recollection of it. Far num gave him a check. Wylie had it made payable to Henry Samuels. The check came to Wylie and Samuels cashed it. The first check for Richland Distil lery and other rebates in March was $1,575. "Where did you hand Samuels the check?" "Don't remember whether here or in Columbia. I have handed him checks in Chester and have re eelved the money in Chester. This $1,575 was paid me in Chester." There was another check for about $1,100 cashed in Chester by Samuels and paid to him in Chester. Wylie said that ,he got approxi mately $28,000 in rebates the year he was on the board. The exact figures were $28,479, he said, reading from the book. "The facts are," said Wylie, "that Solomons knew of the schedule, agreed to pay the rebates and did do so. Roy, Cranston, Dunwoody, Earley, Farnum, all were parties to it." Wylie read from dispensary record book which showed the date and amount of purchase in one column and the date and amount of goods or dered shipped out. The agreement was before the 22nd of March. Pur chases were made under that agree ment to get 'the benefits of the re bates and rebates were paid. The whiskey salesmen usually paid in eash, rarely in checks. Jack Cranstonx paid; Roy paid him close to $5,000 at paid; Roy paid 'hi mclose to $5,000 at ene time, his largest; Farnum had paid him cash in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $3,000. Dunwoody paid through Henry Samuels. The money paid him by Samuels was in Chester county. Cross Examination. Had resided in this county all his life. Attended South Carolina college one year. He had some money from his father's estate. Col. Nelson said he wished to show the depravity of this man, what incentive he had had to go on this dispensary board with the intention to steal. When he be eame of age he had $100. He had been an officer of the church, but hasl heen turned out. Had not stolen. Denied that the $28,000 he got was stealing. He thought the State was losing noth ing by it. Had paid no more for li quor than predecessors. He thought the liquor salesmen were merely di viding with him their large comnmis sions. Wylie said his board had writ ten to whiskey houses claimed that they were selling here as cheaply as anywhvre else. The ,a a debate between Mr. S .M Welch as to wheth c of South Carolina ~ant the body poli - - -of the State. Mr. - -iit not necessarily ?hf." camne out of the - -'a brilia t argu me- '' ~ + defense +1,M S'te didn't lose + -- rP("i"ng rebates, yet i"- '-+ed S'ates reports in the o of (00+ Ob'elin M. Carter who r-- - enA of defrauding the inl t+-- -' a +is the defense or sold it at a great profit. Ruled Out. Judge Moore thereupon ruled out the effort of the defense to show price at which liquors were sold to county dispensaries. Resuming cross examination, Col. Nelson inquired if Wylie's financial conditon was good when he went on the board. Fairly good, witness re plied. There was no urgent demand for him to get on board. He went on board to make money out of it. The first time (he ran for the place, he had no idea of making money. He was defeated. In the second contest, he had the idea of making money. Far num also had told him he could make money out of it. Farnum had sent him $400 to help in his election. He offered to pay it back. Under questions, Wylie said he had been indicted in Richland county for conspiracy, also had testified -in Co lumbia in cases against Black and Farnum. Had also sworn before grand jury in the Bernheim indictment. Witness replied to questions that he had not been promised immunity, but he had been advised by his attorney to make a clean breast of it after Henry Samuels had been taken be fore the attorney general and had giv en enough evidence to convict him. Witness said thit he had not been sued by the State for the return of the rebates. Did not know that this was a part of the agreement between Mr. Lron and his attorney. He had never seen the agreement. Witne s did not know his present financial condition. He is in business and ha has not as much as he got out of the rebates. There was a wrangle over whether or not Wylie could not tell what he and Mr. Hemphill discussed, as that was a confidential communication be tween client and attorney. Mr. Gas ton and Col. Nelson got very indig nant over what he considered a reflec tion from Mr. Stevenson that Wylie had other attorneys when he made a clean breast of this matter. Mr. Steveson regretted that the opposing attorneys were tenderfooted over the matter, but he had intended no in sinuations. Mr. Gaston asserted warmly that he would not rest under any insinuations of that kind, inside of the court house or outside. (It will be recalled that Wylie testified in the Farnum case that he had paid 0ol. Nelson $500 and owed him $500 more on retainer fee when these indict ments were first sworn out.) Heated Colloquy. Wylie testified that the attorney general came to Chester; witness made statement to the attorney gen eral and it was taken down by stenog rapher and read to him and he swore to it. Mr. Hemphill advised him to testify and he would not be punished. He had been ready to testify when called on, and had never been sued by the State for return of rebates. Wylie swore that they tried to get a reduction on price of Budweiser and could not succeed. Do you know C. W. Dudley? Yes. He had sent an attorney, C. W. West brook, to Lexington, Ky., to see Dud ley who was trying to get some money to go to a hospital in Ca 'ada or somewhere. There was a heated colloquy between Nelson and Lyon. On the Hull controversy Black went to Peoria to get whiskey with Wylie's approval. Whiskey was hard to get at that time. Wylie testified that Black was instrumental in having some of 'the Peoria goods shipped back. Witness had never seen any whis key houses actually pay money to Maj. Black. The latter had repre sented Ullman & Co. before going on the board. Objection by Mr. Lyon. Question ruled out. Do you know where M. A. Good man is? No. Was he called as a witness in this case? No. Were you very intimate with Maj. Black? Yes. You had a conversation with RawI inson in Chester today that he would not be convicted? Mr. Lyon objected. Col. Nelson contended that the ob ject of this question was to show that Wylie discredited his own testimony. Wylie was asked again if he had not said to John Black in the Jerome hotel when he first turned State's evi dence: "Before God, John, I don't know anything against you." Wylie replied that paying Black money was not doing anything against him. I didn't see any harm in it. This ended the cross-examination. On redirect examination Mr. Lyon asked Wylie how Farnum happened to give him that $400. Wylie replied that he had started home one Satur day during his campaign for p1lace on boi ard to get some money. Farnum > "1to stay and gave him from an agent. at Savannah for $10.50 and at the same time was paying $12.10 for the bulk of its beer. Defense objected, but Mr. Lyon ar gued that this was relevant as show ing that the Budweiser people, who, through J. S. Farnum, were in the conspiracy, were holding up the State for this $1.50 per barrel extra. The evidence was admitted by Judge Moore. Mr. Lyon asked witness if the sen ate of South Carolina or any other body had brought suit to make him restore the graft money. Defense ob jected-irrelevant. "And just so," re plied Mr. Lyon, "is it irrelevant wheth er the commission has yet done so." Records Disappeared. H. Wilkin, secretary of Jim Far num's beer bottling works in Charles ton, was the next witness after Wylie came down. Witness had hunted for drafts drawn on Farnum for various amounts payable to Henry Samuels, B. M. Wilson and others. The rec ords in Farnum's office had disap peared after the auditng by the city of Charleston. Cross-examined, witness said he !knew nothing of any such checks at all. One of the checks asked about was one for $1,575 given Wylie by Farnum through Samuels as emissary plenipo tentiary. Henry Samuels testified that he had represented John T. Barbee & Co. of Louisville and H. A. Therman & Co. of the same place and Cook -& Bern heimer company of New York and the Atlanta Brewing & Ice company, also Geo. A. Keoster & Co., a man named Flasher from Macon, Ga., and the White Seal Champagne company. Was never Farnum's agent or repre sentative. Farnum had paid him a salary to go to the county dispensar I ies to sell the Long Horn brand made by the Richland Distilling company. Went to Atlanta with Joe Wylie, when he was first elected, to see Blu t1henthal & Bickert. They went over to see if they could do any business. That firm sold "Old Joe." They en gaged to sell to the board through Samuels. But there was never any sales after that date. Witness said that W. D. Roy was the general rep rensentative of Barbee & Theirman and gave Samuels directions how to proceed. Samuels swore that Roy pa:id him for work. On the 15th day of Novem ber, 1906, Roy gave him a check for $1,350, Samuels cashed it at the Commercial bank and gave the money to Wylie in Chester. W. 0. Guy, foreman of 'the jury, asked how Samuels knew that he had paid tjis money to Wyliei did he take any receipt for it? Samuels replied that he had taken rio receipt; he merely got the cheeks cashed for Wyli, Vjef %% Witness read out the rebate sched ule which Joe B.' Wylie gave him a day or two after it was agreed upon in Columbia. Witness said that later the schedule of graft was reduced, but the one first agreed upon he had a copy of, and it tallied with that of Joe B. Wylie put in evidence in the morning. Cross Examination. "You had no dealings that were crooked or shady with Rawlinson, Black or Solomons." "No." I"My dealings were with Mr. Wylie." 'There was no concert of action be tween you and Wylie and the others?" Witness replied that there was no un derstanding between him and Roy or Dudley or the others. Samuels detailed the circumstances of .his "visit" to the attorney general's office. He said that he had been subpoenaed to go to Columbia. He was not a willing witness. He had answered all the questions he could remember and Col. Felder told him he would have 10 minutes to an swer those questions or be ruled for contempt of court. Witness caused much amusement by describing how he gave up the information. The ob ject of the defense was to impeach Dr. Murray, who had testified that the commission had intimidated no1 witness. Witness said that the schedule was for Wylie and he was not informed1 that it was for the other members of the board. IOn redirect, Mr. Lyon taunted die-i fense by asking Samuels why he had: been treated so mildly by attorneys for defense here, when he had been1 hectoried so in Columbia. Witness grinned and admitted that 'he had!: been handled rather roughly in Co lumnbia in the former trial. (Samuels is the political king bee of Chester< and it would have been a bad break for the defense to have worried Samuels on the stand here.) I1ad Told Truth. The defense tried, to make it ap pear that Samuels had been intimi dated into a confession, but on redi o'wrxinination he swore that be +hc truth to the dispensary com Robert Gage, cashier of the Coin- I: mercial bank, where Samuels cashed < tMic ch?cks, corroborated the entire +r'n*ots as recorded. Further 'vnr he wor to avin maked n j TERRIBLE CIII We are going out of the Fancy Cb sacrifice to do so. We offer our tre ported China at a great reduction. - I and Christmas presents cheap. We The person purchasing China or Gb titled to a chance on an $8.00 ChoccA The person purchasing China or Glf titled to a chance on a Salad set value The person purchasing China or Gl titled to a chance on a set of cups and With every purchase of China and 4 give a souvenir plate. With every purchase of China and 4 give a jardinier valued at 75c. With every purchase of China and we will give a jardinier valued at $1.2 With every purchase of China and' give a jardinier valued at $2.50 to $4. These offers hold good from today i o'clock With every purchase of Chin et with the amount of purchase there< our office not later than 3:30 o'clock. place as soon thereafter as possible, Come in and see our prizes. Ask iu stand about the offer. Come in now See Our Handsome NOTICE )fRegistration For Municipal Elec- G tion For the Town of Newberry. otice is hereby given that the books I t r a fregistration of voters for the Townl ~fNewberry, South Carolina, will be pned at the office of the Chief of Po L, in the opera house, from the firstS r of October until the 30th day of roember, 1910, both days inclusive, Nov iudays excepted, between the hours f9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 L tCrR lock in the afternoon. F. M. Lind- LgtCrR ahas been appointed supervisor of ristration. Only such persons asGrn Piz rister as herein provided for shall GadPie eallowed to vote at the regular town ection to be held on the 13th day of Dcember, 1910, and at special elec is held in the Town of NewberryVeyL -ing the next 12 months. he production of a certificate of ristration from the Board of Regis- O)L rtion of Newberry county entitling ________ eapplicant to vote in a polling pre ent within the incorporated limits of Abvle.. eTown of Newberry, proof of his Aiken.... .... eidence within the limits of thie Anderson.. nicipality for four months preced- Batesburg .. gthe annual election for the year Belton... [90, and the payment of all taxes Donalds ....... sessed against him due and collecti efor the previous fiscal year, are iessary to entite the applicant to ProportionaM ist erder of the Town Council of the 9' 10, i'r and fo: ['n of Newberry, S. C., on the 22nd vemlber 12th, 19 - of September, 1910. COLE. L. BLEASE, ythe Mayor: Will be operated . R. Scurry, November ; tl S C. & T. T. C. N., S , C. follow ing sche( Worse Than Bullets. ulet,s have often caused less suf rng to soldiers than the eczema L-.6 .Harriman, Burlington, Me., got in earmy, and suffered with, forty ars. "But Bucklen's Arnica Salve For fur' ed me when all else failed," he S. H. Me ~rtes. Greatest healer for Sores,. Jlers, Boils, Burns, Cuts, Wounds, JNO.L 3rises and Piles. 25c. at W. E. Pel-' , SLAUGHTER N ina business and are making a big mendous line of strictly high grade im low is the time to get your wedding make the following inducements: issware to the amount of $30.00 is en te set. wsware to the amount of $25.00 is en. d at $5.00. wsware to the amount of $20.00 is en saucers valued at $3.00. 1lassware amounting to $1.00 we will alassware amounting to $3.50 we will Glassware amounting to $5.00 to $8.00 5. Glassware amounting to $10.00 we will 00. intil Christmas eve afternoon at three a and Glassware you will receive a tick in. These tickets must be presented at The drawing and awards will take .5 to explain anything you don't under and get 'your Christmas present. ine of Cut Glass. [ardware Co. ~AND PRIZE ~onal Automo0bile Races IAVANNAH, GA., ~mber 11h and_12h, 1910. ce, 206 Miles, Commences 10 A. M. Eastern Time, November 11th, 1910. ace, 413 Miles, Commences 9 A. M. Eastern Time, November 12th, 1910. w Rrd Trip Excursion Rates via thie therrn' Railway. *.....56.65Greenwood............$6.20 . .....4.20 Honea Path..............7.20 .7.25 Johnston ................ 4.9% ..... 4.65 Lexington .... ........ ...4.65 . . .. 7 2c)1Newberry.....---.--.-.--580 .6.80 Edgefield........---.--490 Williamston ...........-----750 -owu~. rates from other points. Tickets sold November trains~ scheduled to arrive Savannah before mnoon No o, with final limit returning November 15, 1910. A SPEIAL TRAIN betwee n Colu:'-bia and Savannah, leaving Columbia nid re' ' rniing leaving Savani3ah November 12th, on - 'nib a . Ar. 3:00 a. m. A LEX H A CKLFR, T P. A., A ugusta, Ga. W. E. McGEE, D. P. A., Charleston, S. C.