Show MISfORTUNE ON TRAil of WITNESSES Two Important Witnesses Witness s for Sugar Fraud Prosecution Prosecution Prose- Prose cution Are Ill NEW NW YORK YORE May 14 14 uno seems to be pursuing witnesses in th the tho su sugar ar scandal cases Recently Richard Parr star witness in preceding trials and ond ordered to fi figure prominently in inthe tho the trial of Charles R. R Heike secretary of or tho the American Su Sugar ar R Refining company com coin J pony pany was threatened with v-ith p peritonitis rito itis and aud today it is still in whether ho he can appear at at the trial next wok It is also learned that Otto 8 ter ono one of tho the American Sugar ar Refining Reen Belin- ing company's bookkeepers on whose te testimony the government d Is oven ovon more lar largely ey in the Heiko Helko prosecution is is seriously ill The Tho prospects c arc are that ho he will bo be unable to testify Parr uncovered the crooked work with the tho scales on an n the tho Williamsburg sugar docks locks which sent R a quartet of checkers a and d Oliver their foreman fore fore- mann man inan to the penitentiary after a ten sea trial at his post in the suJ sugar company offices checked the tho wei weighing operations It was the tables ho he pro pen pared and concerning which ho testified fied fled at the te previous trials that enabled the tho government to show th the differences differ dIffer- proving th tho which sent tho checkers to prison and am which resulted in thc the refunding in to the government bY the u r u ny o omoro of moro more than 2 OO in d ti mt to bave avo qI l down as 38 a result of f tho the laborious rio l j york work ho he did in D making akin th tha computations and th the nervous strain of the tho Ion long coutin ned prosecutions The Tho ment counsel while whilo somewhat some some- I what cast east down at af th tho illness of Parr PaTr and insists that other evi donee dence has developed that makes their case ease stronger than ever er and th that t the tho trial of f bike Heiko and an others accused in inthe th the tho conspiracy cases will start art next Monday Monda ac according to schedule |