BRIBE AND ITS SEQUEL.
TRIAL OF RUM RUNNER. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. A bottle of whisky was all that Samuel Bafir and his associates got for the £13,000 they collected for Uie purposo of giving tho former U.S. At-torney-General, Mr Daugherty, a bribe, according to the testimony of Satir. and other officials of the Cramer Stockpiling Company, in the trial of Gaston Means, alleged to bo connected with rum-running, for alleged conspiracy. Safir and his friends 1 had been charged with using the mails to sell fake stocks in the Glass Casket Company. They had made so much money that they willingly provided a huge bribe to avoid being sent to prison. "Means brought us a bottle, cracked a few jokes, helped us to a drink of liquor, and went away with the money, but the next week we went to trial just the same, and were convicted, moaned Safir.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 59, 9 February 1925, Page 10
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