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GRACE ON STAND IN DISPENSARY FROBE Sensational Affidavit From Charleston Liquor Dealer Read Before Commission. Columbia, June 18.?Mayor Grace, of Charleston, took the stand before the legislative investigation committee at 12.30 o'clock. He said that he was willing to tell all that ne Knew OI lUf dispensary situation in Charleston. ? At thfe point a contest was precipi-1 tated by R. H. Welch, attorney for j 10- Chief Constable Stothart, who questioned the right of the committee to question Mayor Grace concerning the present day dispensary situation in Charleston. This the OfrBUnittee col j sidered a most important question. An executive session was held today by the committee, and it was decided to hear Mayor Grace's testimony. Mayor Grace suggested that the committee subpoena Mr. Stothart. He 1 said that he wanted Mr. Stothart to! be present to see whether he would i deny the charges, and the committee i thought that the Grace testimony should be given first. Mayor Grace reviewed his relation with Governor Blease and told of the broken promises ;by Blease in connection with the appointment of constables. He specified the promises by j Governor Blease to lefave the situation | in Charleston to the local gover jmeut. | When the question of giving names ! to substantiate his testimony was rais% ed by F. M. Cary, a member of the; committee, Mayor Grace invited the | committee to come to Charleston and I take the evidence of parties who he1 : j ~ nrAnl/1 toetifv in cnh S)<tiU UC 1CK 3U1C TTUUiU- ivouij iu uustantiation of what he had said in regard to Chief Constable Stothart de-; i manding $250 graft on a certain day. j ,j Mayor Grace said that Blease told him that Ben Stothart was his best ? " ?* ^ i_ A ! iriena. Mayor urate gave m uaau the broken promise of Blease. He related how he finally broke with Blease ; and said that he had never worn the uniform as a lieutenant colonel. An affidavit from J. J. Miller, a part-, ner in a wholesale liquor house in Charleston, who testified that he was forced to protect his customers by! collecting $5 and $10 for each one; per month. He turned this over to a partner of the firm and he in turn gave it to ' Ben Stothart, the chief constable of Blease. Other matters were read by Mayor Grace. Allegations to show the graft the Charleston constabulary; were receiving were recited by Mayor j Grace and he was still on the stand when the committee recessed. That the dispensary constables in Charleston drew from $2,500 to $3,000 a month "graft" from blind tigers; that Chief Stothart had told a party on the train that he had been promised a pardon if he put "Jim Crocker and myself out of the way, that I know too much and would talk," were sensational statements contained in an affidavit of J. J. Miller, submitted to the investigating committee by Mayor Grace, in attempting to show how Blease's constables were grafting. 1 1 mmmmGRACE CHARGES GRAFT. Testifies Before investigation Committee?Claims Constables Demanded Money. <. j The State. . j Charleston, June 19.?Testimony tending to show wholesale graft in connection with the Charleston whis-: key situation was given before the1 legislative investigation committee, otVii/->h twn Inn? a*nrtir>Pr ?pssmns ! here today and tonight to meet next | in Augusta on July 8, when the tes-! timony of T. B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney, will be taken. Man after i man of various nationalities appearing before the committee at the different cessions nnpnlv anri linblushinslv ad ruitted that they were "blind tigers" and that they were violating the law. The system of collecting "protection money" was outlined by the various witnesses. According to their state ments tnere is a system someunus like the foiiowing in existence in Charleston: The. "blind tiger" buys his whiskey from the wholesale dealer and pays sums ranging from $5 to $10 a month for the wholesaler to protect; him from the State whiskey consta-1 bles. In several instances the alleged! graft was traced to well-known whole- i ; gale dealers, whose names were giv- j n. These witnesses said that the j wholesalers had told them that the j protection fund was in turn to be de- j livered to the whiskey constables. Va-! rious witnesses appearing charged that they had paid this protection fund to J. Henry Doscher, Santos Sottile and P. J. O'Neill, all said to be j well known whiskey dealers of Char- | lesion. JUivery enori. was muut: uy mc \ k committee to subpoena these men, but i it was found that they had left tho j city. This report was made tonight j to the committee by the sheriff cf Charleston county. The committee decided to summon the three men named j and others to appear in Columbia at I an early date. Aie.moers 01 ice committee tonight expressed the opinion that the testimony of the three would furnish the connecting link with all of the testimony presented. The wit- j nesses were put up by Mayor Grace to prove his charge that graft had been traced practically up to the governor's omce. Paid to Stothart. The testimony was given to prove that the graft money had been paid to B. H. Stothart, chief constable in South Carolina. Louis Schmonses, appearing before the committee, stated very frankly that he was a "blind tiger" and that he was engaged in the whiskey business because- there was more money to be made. He declared emphatically that he had been paying $10 a month as protection money to a member of the firm of the Marion Stock company, a whiskey corporation. He said that he went to Ben Stothart! * Ol A t and 101a mni wni was iuu wuvu and that he was not able to pay it. The amount he said was reduced to $7.50. "Did you pay Stothart any money?" asked the committee. "The money was placed in Stothart's hand. I placoH it thprp mvself." said the witness. This was the most direct charge made before the committee. J. M. Strickland appeared at the af- j ternoon session and asked to explain! that it was his brother mentioned in j the Miller affidavit, and not himself, j He told of operating a whiskey place j near Charleston and charged that hei had been paying Henry Doscher $10 a month to keep the whiskey constables away. He testified that for his brother's j grocery store, where whiskey was; sold, he paid various amounts for pro- j tection to Doscher, O'Xeil and Jessen, all said to be whiskey wholesalers. He said that the constables, after taking a couple of bottles of cold beer would go right on." Louis Schmonses gave testimony for J more than one hour. j Produced a Check. He told of paying graft. He said, J <iT J *1- ~ w?^nATT infn Vl?ni^C* TT D : J. paiu Lur; muucj iulu uia uauuo. jljlw promised me protection. The transaction took place in Stothart's office." Schmonses also produced a check for $7.50 to show that he had paid the protection money to the Marion Stock company. James Crocker, a former State constable under Stothart and j now city detective of Charleston, was i the next witness. He told of the ru-! i mors of gr?ft in Charleston. Croker said that because he raided several wagons he was put out of the way be- j ing commissioned to work at Barn-1 well by the governor. One of the wagons raided, he said, belonging to Santo Sottile, Crocker snid tbat Theodore Mappus, a blind tiger, told him that J the graft money from Charleston was'1 being divided between Gov. Blease, t Crocker and Stothart. Crocker said that while on a visit I to Columbia and just before he was ordered to go to Barnwell, that A. W. Todd met him there and told him that he should go on to Barnwell for he would be able to make much in that ? nni% w V? ama y?Af Arr f A IUWI1. lilt; wuucis ucic 1 cici i cu i-\j the Miller statement that Stohart had stated that Gov. Blease had promised him a pardon to put Miller out of the way for knowing too much about the Charleston liquor situation. As to That Promise. "Do you remember a conversation | with Capt. John Black, coming back j from Columbia?" This question was asked Crocker by Senator Carlisle, with reference to the promised pardon statement. "Yes, sir," said Crocker. "Capt. Black said he was going to j see Cole. Blease and make him put me back to work. I went on to the train i to meet hi?n and Chief Stothart came I out behind me. Some one said Todd 1 was there. Black was complaining of having a very severe headache. Mil- j ler said, 'Let's go by a place .and get j a coca-cola.' Miller told me that j something was wrong with Black. He i said, 'I'll get away. Black and I wenti i on up. He said: 'You go prepared.'; I asked. 'What's .the matter.' He said,j 'True, Ben Stothart is drunk, but he i told me coming down on the train, that I he had been instructed by the gover- j nor that if he would dispose of you j and John Miller, he would pardon, him." "Is this the same Black who was convicted for grafting in dispensary matters and pardoned by the gover-; nor?" asked Mr. Evans. I "Yes, sir," replied Crocker. Testimony of the same character i was given in the affidavit of J. J. Mil- i ler. X lie iluAl ?ailicoo ?ao livi u^i ^ K cuse. He admitted very frankly that he was a blind tiger. He said he knew Ben Stothart. He said that he had been paying $10 a month to W. 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