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Show f PiMI OF CHANGE 10 1 CHEAT GOVERNMENT ijKush of Sugar Business at I Dorks ol" Sugar Trust Af-, Af-, forded Opportunity. XJ5W YOU K, Dec. 1. The fruitful jfipportuuity for fraud in the bustle of ; i ihc enormous business done daily on the -Williamsburg docks of (he Americau pugnv Refining company was what the I C government sought to bring out today in the trial of the six former employees '. tlii' company, charged with defraud-.ng defraud-.ng the government by underweights. Wk JJavid I-raguer, a customs inspector, mnii once an assistant government :K Junior .testified that at a busv i.imc i .iO trucks a minute passed over a sin-s.l'a,e sin-s.l'a,e nr oighl to the min-'. min-'. le on the tour sets in use. ' i, i ' i!.rilck V'10'1 hill,: a ,OI. -'Hid 1 r'tn,. t0D' V'V yiivernmont will coM- I sh If V 'C2,lctI t.hirteen pounds Jrt, by the secret manipulations of W X ycrn,,,cl employees, who, it is m r'1, JVPrc, "a,(l l',sl1 h-v 'lie sugar m: "yuiy for tho evasion of customs du- H U? !M",C rau I'ropiM'lv. the gov- 'ood to lose its "duties ou J . pounds of sugar every hour. fniu t,l,s s,c:,.(1' fIod f trucking im CaOSS ,hc sc'illos' ,I,C lil-r. .1 wslo-01'1I,"oxt ,I"' weigher, was too I 1 w V ,,1:1ior. to watch him. John it -.""Chran. n checkf-r, was asked if m Vnn,.;"0 i0,'tnos. " which ho certified ?cttnlsl(r,K,,is hc i,:,d scc ,hc i tbnn?11 1 :' 1,0 ""ctl. "Some-H "Some-H "nh 1 o le away." H ?, (-'1'oys rx-''ininefs wens unable to B: I, , 11 nthl' 0htl'iiy of Audrew .J. Mul- 'V1'!' cIcrr swore that dames H ' : "t'iKleinagle, Jormerlv cashier for the H' 4h"f;,v -cmpaiiy. paid cash at his office i locufttoius employees in uniform. It . |