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Show to pay a fine of ?50,OOO, but was allowed al-lowed a stay pending appeal. liLitt mil He Must Serve Eight Months for Sugar Frauds New York, Sept 18. Charles R. Helke, former secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining company, com-pany, who has been called the "man higher up" In the sugar trust, was sentenced today by Judgo Martin in the United States court to 8crve eight months in the New York penitentiary on Blackwell s Island and pay a fine of 55.Oi.iO on conviction of conspiring to defraud the United States govern ment by the underwelghing of sugar. In Imposing senter.ee, Judge Martin said that as Helke had only leen convicted con-victed on one count of the Indictment charging him with aiding the conspiracy con-spiracy Instead of all six counts, as the other defendants had been, and taking Helke's ago (60 years) and his accustomed mode of life Into consideration, con-sideration, he would be inclined to t suspend sentence altogether. But as punishment must be indicted as an example, he could not follow his per- tonal Inclination. Judge Martin add j ed, and he thereforo added the eight j months' prison sentence to the ?5,U0O J fine. Judge Martin granted a stay of ex- ! ecutlon pending an appeal to the c!r j cuit court of appeals. The court also 1 reduced Helke's bail, which had been j $25,0rtu pending sentence since his conviction last June, to $15,000. , I Helke's sentence Is the culminating ! point in tho federal governments prosecutions of American Sugar Re- lining' company's officials and employes em-ployes growing out of the extended underweighing frauds on the Williamsburg Wil-liamsburg docks of the trust, brought to light by Richard Parr's famous raid on the docks In 1907. Four weighera for the company, and Oliver , Spitzer, their dock boss, were con- 1 victod In the first criminal trial In connection with tho frauds, and the j weighers are still serving their sen- . teneo of one year in the Blackwell's j Island penitentiary. I Spitzer, who was sentenced to two I years In the Atlanta penitentiary, was j pardoned during the trial of Helke. J Kmest W. Gerbracht. tho refinery su-pcrintendent, su-pcrintendent, and four minor cm ployes of tho company for conspiracy. I He turned state's evidence and his testimony played an important part in tho conviction of Ileike, Gerbracht I and the checkers. The sugar company, meanwhile, j had paid the government more than S2.0il0.00n, out of which it was shown the customs had been defrauded by the underweighing operations. Helke's case was a long time coming com-ing to trial, as he first claimed Immunity Im-munity because of the testimony which he had given before the federal grajid Jury in another sugar proceeding. proceed-ing. His plea, however, was overruled by tho supreme court of the United States. Gerbracht was sentenced to two jcars in the Atlanta uenltcnUary and |