Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-03 | Page 9 | Government Runs Against Big Snag

RUNS hUM S St Si i 1 a t AGAINST BIG SNAG I Many Witnesses and Much Docu Documentary Documentary Documentary Evidence in Sugar Refining Casl Disappear 4 TRACE OF THEM FOUND Custom iii Hou c Testified That CI One Olle of Hill h t item Fixed Fixed New ew York Dec tee 2 The government encountered a check today bitty in III n its of oC the American Sugar Running Refining company compan when It developed that thai docu I evidence I and many witnesses ses f E no to tho the governments casc cn a have lu ve geared The documents were I accords records kept by br city and the documents document nor the tho men mon who kept elt them could coul be found today toda But although tally sheets were miss Sing inS the government was able to in introduce introduce testimony showing that every ever cale ecale on the Williamsburg docks of oC the tho company compau had been tampered tampere with I Conrad Heller Hell a n carpenter testified to cutting culling out a n portion of the tho wooden of oC J xo o 1 scales Through the hole thus cut the government go con contends tends was nas operated the steel teel spring that manipulated tho the weights recorded jon oil the beam Thomas D II h att a government was wal us asked if iC he had hall inspect 1 all 16 scales on un the dock In com conn company pany with Treasurer Agent Parr Yes Yell he answered and find I found foun all th tine scales fixed In the tho same wa wu a With Hh springs In them asked tho iho judge jU No your honor but b t the holes were I there just j st the same I Largo Large discrepancies In tine thc weights s of various cargoes of or sugar weighed wel a atho at atthe tho the docks by b both the tho government sO and amI the company compan were shown from the tho dock records of or the com company compan company pany pan Tho Thu weight of one olle cargo was shown by b the compans record to be bo pounds gi greater cater than the tho government had found It Thomas Kehoe one of the thu defendants ants checked this shipment On smother another cargo checked by b Boyle Bo le another of oC the accused men menthe menthe menthe the difference was pounds poun s In I favor of the company compan Auditor AV W G Foster roster of the iho American Sugar Refining company was culled called to give evidence against James Janes F Ben Bendernagel the cashier of the Williams Williamsburg I burg burs plant Ho He Identified ns as n Bender the writing on one of the certificates certificates of city returns