Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 6 | Main Witnesses in the Case Sick

MAIN WITNESSES IN THE CASE SICK S Trial of Charles E B B Heike Secretary of Sugar Company to Begin Monday New York May 14 Misfortune seems seem to he be pursuing witnesses In the sugar scandal castS cases Recently Richard Parr star witness in preceding trials and aid d expected to figure prominently In the trial of Charles R B Heike Helke secretary of the American merican Sugar Refining company was threatened with peritonitis and to today today today day it is still uncertain whether he be becan can ca appear at the trial next week It Is also learned that Otto er one of the American Sugar Refining Ref in jug ing bookkeepers on an n whose testimony the government depends even more largely In the Heike Helke prose prosecution cution ls s seriously serl ill The he prospects are that he ne will be unable to testily testify Parr uncovered the crooked work with the scales on the WillIamsburg sugar docks which sent Bent a quartet of ot checkers and Oliver their fore foreman foreman foreman man to the penitentiary after atter a sen sea sensational sensational trial at his post in the sugar su ar company offices checked the weighing operations It was the tables hf h pre pro prepared prepared pared and concerning which he testified lied fled at the previous trials that en enabled enabled enabled the government to show the dif differences differences differences proving the which sent the checkers to prison and which resulted in the refunding to the government by the sugar company of more than in duties er is said to have suffered a break breakdown breakdown down dawn as a result of ot the laborious work he did In I making the computations and the nervous strain of the long continued prosecutions The government counsel while some somewhat somewhat somewhat what cast down at the Illness of Parr and insists that other evi evidence evIdence dence has developed that makes thel case stronger than ever and that the trial of Heike and others othE ls accused in inthe Inthe Inthe the conspiracy cases will start next Monday according to schedule