| Show The Whisky Trusts Lame Defense CHICAGO Feb 144i consultation between be-tween President Greenhut of the Whisky trust Directors Woolner and McNulty and other officials was held hero today in regard re-gard to tho sensational developments in the aliened dynamite conspiracy of Secretary Secre-tary Gibson Greenhut announced jibson had resigned pending an investigation A preliminary plan of defense was outlined in which it will be asserted that Dewar manufactured the machine and that Gibson was the victim of a conspiracy on the part of the United States officials They will assert Dewar is a practical machinist could have made the infernal machine which ho alleged Gibson gave him I was to be admitted that Gibson was in communication with Dewar for the purpose pur-pose of obtaining reliable information as to the output of Shufeldcs distillery In case Dewar failed to send information Gibson I may nave written him on tho subject that Dewar had an opportunity to tamper with Gibsons valise after his arrest and before i was put into the vault that he might have substituted the imflammable matter found in it later for an innocent linuid lnuid that no such bottle as that containing the liquid was in Gibsons valise when he was arrested In short that Gibson may be the victim of a conspiracy of which the government officials may be tao dupes As to the shares of Whisky trust stock it is to be shown they were the property of Gib sons wife and that he was merely taking them to be deposited In the course of an interview subsequently subse-quently President Greonhurst said good attorneys had been engaged to defend Gibson He said there is really no motive for the trust to wish to annihilate Shu feldts distillery but there were many reasons for Shufeldt wishing to Injure the trust C District Attorney Gilchrlst thought the plan of defense want woita shucks He pronounced as ridiculous the story that the bottles in the valise could have been exchanged ex-changed The valise was not out of Gib sons hands from the time he left the car tme riage until he reached Commissioner Hoynes office I was then opened in his presence and in it was found the bottle The statement that Gibson did not como here in answer to a letterfromDewar but was on his way to Oleveland to visit relatives rela-tives the district attorney branded as untrue un-true and said he had evidence to disprove it I think he added the best thing the trust people can do is to keep quiet They may get in deeper than tuey tumk |
