Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-13 | Page 1 | Man "Higher up" is under Arrest

: I IE BSI ; rtcccutly-ftesigned Important Otlicial of the Sugar Trust ; - Indicted. CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY IN WEIGHING FRAUDS Promptly Furnishes Cash Bond of $5000; Details of an In- , t cresting Case. JTRW YOPIC. Nov. 32. After months of quiet work by tho government investigators, inves-tigators, who have been scrutinizing tho ins and outs of the 'complicated sugar frauds (here came suddenly today to-day (ho indictment; and arrest of an important former official of the American Ameri-can Sugar Befining eompaaiy, charged with conspiracy fo defraud the government govern-ment by false weighing of sugar. The man arrested is James l' Bendor-nagle. Bendor-nagle. for moro than thirty years superintendent super-intendent of the TIavcineyer & Elder refinery iu Williamsburg, tho largest plant of tho American Sngar Refining company. H. is regarded as significant that Beiidernagle 's resignation from this responsible position was announced by the company only yesterdaj'. IIo wa3 arrested this afternoon. Gives Big Cash Bond. When arraigned beforo United Slates f'oinjijissionor Benedict and asked to give $0000 .bail for his appearance next Monday, .Beiidernagle produced the required re-quired amouut in cash. Tito indictment returned against Bon-ili'naglo Bon-ili'naglo is of tho blanket variety, in eluding in its terms -also tho so-called "big six-" Oliver Spifzer, Thomas Ivehoe, Edward A. Boyle. Jean M. Yool-Iter, Yool-Iter, John Tf. Coyle and Patrick J. Hen-nepsey, Hen-nepsey, all of whom havo been previously previous-ly Indicted on similar charges. Tho si.T were Beudernagle's associates in the capacity of agents and boss weighers at lh- Williamsburg rilanl, The specific chargoa against Bonder-' naglo are that ho defrauded the government govern-ment out of duty to tho amount of $1004. in connection with the false entry or the l,000,000-pound sugar cargo of the steamer Eva, which arrivod from Cuba on August -i, 1007. A littlo moro than 100.000 pounds wcro clipped off tho real weight;, when tho customs charges v,ero computed, according to allegations of the indictment. At ono point the indictment relates the old charges made against four members mem-bers of the so-called "big sis," alleging al-leging tho use of fraudulent devices on I lie scales at the docks to short-weight short-weight sugar. It was in connection with these charges that tho government last spring recovered $2,1:55,000 in duties and penalties.