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Show THE W1II.SKY ItlNCi. Slow tlicy Fixed Thin;: ih the !JstiHcr.s. St. Louis, 10. The chief v.ilncss iu the case of Oen. John McDonald, cx- . supervisor of internal revenue, was G. G. McGrtie, who testified to repeated talks with McDonald and Joyce about making money out of illicit distilling, the substance of which was that distillers dis-tillers would ho protected in making crooked whisky if they would give a certain part ot the tax saved to cer tain partu s, lie also teslitieu to a conversation with Bevis fe Fraser and others, in which he asturcd them that they could run on in violation of law and receive the sanction of government gov-ernment officers if they complied with the previous terms. This was done by the authority of Joyce and McDonald. About $8,500 per week was collected and paid in at witness' office, ho paying the different differ-ent sub-officers, the balance being divided into five parts, Joyce and McDonald Mc-Donald each receiving one, and the others wero given to Leavenworth, with the understanding that McKeo get one and Lord one. This began in 1871. McDonald complained once that Joyce should notrecieve as much as the resr. On one occasion witness gave McDonald $2,000 more thau the rest without giving Joyce a full share. The arrangements were in at the distillers dis-tillers would make up the deficiency. The tax on whisky was then fifty cents per gallon, and witness collected collect-ed about thirty cents per gallon. It was understood at the supervisor's office, that store-keepers, guugers and other subs were to receive from a dollar to a dollar and a half per barrel, bar-rel, but Leavenworth generally paid more. Witness took money for supervisors su-pervisors and thero was no particular disguise about bis delivering it. He always net aside part of the money, part of tho time $100 per week, and part of the time $300 per week, for Wm, O. Avery, chief clerk of the Internal In-ternal Revonuo bureau, Washington. This increase was made at tho instance in-stance of Joyce, who camo - from Washington once and Baid Avery was complaining of not getting enough money, henco wc increased it to $300 per week. During the cross examination examina-tion witness admitted to having been indicted for bribery of Phil. Warner, a U. S. guager.but denied the charge, nolle pioscqttial. Ho also denied any arrangement by which the indictment indict-ment will be dismissed. Ho had heard that he is included'in an omnibus om-nibus iudictment, but no copy was sewed on him. He couldn'tstatc the amount he realized out of tho ring here, but thought from $50,000 to $130,000, nearly all ol which he lost in stocks iu New York. Chos. W, Ford, John Leavenworth and Finlay Robb, mentioned aa having received money from him, have since died. - Thompson, distiller, testified that Joyce permitted him to run an extra tube or two. He paid $300 for eer-vices eer-vices at Washington. Ho made from 25 to 50 per cent, on the crooked whisky. Alfred Bevis testified that he made crooked whisky with the knowledge of Jovce and McDonald: rjuid from $100 to $300 a week to Megrue; paid Brushcr $3,000 as his share ol the $70,000 demanded by that official. offi-cial. Witness thought his house paid about $100,000 in fourteen months; was in tho collector's office when the records wero destroyed, which was arranged by Joyce and Concannon. The latter was chief clerk in the recorder's re-corder's office. Had been shown letters by Joyce purporting to come from Avery and Babcock, the president's presi-dent's secretary. On cros3-cxamina-uuu ne oLiid he u..d t-lkwl with McDonald Mc-Donald about whisky and MulJonaid said everything was "all right, go ahead." I |