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Show tlEfifl tCCIJSEll OF TAKING Bljsl Startling Condition of Affa If Said to Exist in the State of South Carolina. ' I By International News Service. nfi AUGUSTA, Gn., July J2.-TeBtif$ T in the court houso hore today b$j $ia an invosticatinc committee o 5 South Carolina locislaturo, S. B. Pol jygU an attorney of Atlantt, accused Go; (t nor Colo E. Elcaso of that stato of 1 ine takon bribos from whisky hoiii which supplied liquor to tho South olina dispensaries, bribos for his'i f. r fluence in directing tho conrao of 1 P in the lotrislaturc, briboa for protect t extended to "blind tigers" and a bi f . of $2000 for nardoninc Rudolph Hal S a notorious ' 'fence.' ' v Polder jravo names and lotails ; jtii supported his accusations with Hv" donco gathered by agents of the mi I . dotoctive, "William J. Burns. Muct fkr 1 the testimony was obtained with dl graphs. Mr," Burns was present. ; Ho said that in all his thirty yei lOCl experienco ho had never scon anytt L' equal to the situation in South Ci ? Una and that tho San Francisco gl qa was infinitesimal in comparison ? tho corruption in South Carolina. r-tn Tho investigation is being held Mi Georgia because Mr. Pelder had I F Fo warned, he said, that if he onto IL, South Carolina he would bo assassli od. He said ho knew that mercy ;! Folio been promised to one of Bleai !fa f henchmen if ho would put Feldor.A, i of the way. ? ' . lH |