Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-12-09 | Page 6 | Sugar Frauds Old and Long Neglected

SUGAR FRAUDS OLD AND LONG NEGLECTED NEW YORK YORI Dec 9 D. jn ing sugar r and cheating tho the government ov out of duty is not a now art according to testimony ny introduced yesterday as the government continued its prosecution prosecution tion of six former employees of tho the American Sugar Refining company company James Conlon a former customs testified testified that althou although h ho he had apprised his superiors of the existence o of fraud more than ton ten years ago nothing nothing noth noth- in ing was done to punish the tho guilty per per- tons eons until after the tho death of H. H H 0 O. Havemeyer Ha Thomas Kehoe a defendant W was S implicated implicated im im- by bv Conlon's Conlon s 's testimony when the latter atter that ho he had twice seen Kehoe manipulate the scales b by y a special appliance Ho lie seized the ins instrument ru ment meat so he testified but in tho the first instance returned it after Kehoe h had d pleaded leaded with him Later he ho testified he reported the tho matter but it brou brought ht no results ts