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Show KING TO TESTI FY IN ; WEST CACHE SUGAR I SALT IKE. April United States Senator William H Klnc. due to arrive in Salt Lake from Washing I ton toda . will be subpoenaed as B witness for the defendants In tie suit Of the West Cache Sugar company to recover from J. a. Hendrlckson and ' Lorenzo N Stohl certain alleged unde glared profits of promotion An 'nouncement to this effect was m;ide in ' j court yesterday by counsel for the de- i j fendants. j Mrs. Mary L. Hendrlckson. wife of Mr. Hendrlckson. the defendant; , I Joseph Scowcroft. vice president, and Fred G Taylor, secretary treasurer, ot ! tho Amalgamated Sugar company; Leonard Scott and L H. Hadley. tor marly auditors for the West Cat he Sugar company, and Miss Carrie Thomas of Logan were the new wit- j nesses called and examined for tho defendants in yesterday's progress of trial of the case before Judge W H. 1 Bramel of the Third district court. Lon I. Haddock, recalled to com ! plete his testimony, was the first witness on the stand. He admitted his signature on a letter of June 6. 191S, ; with which he was faced on cross-ex-1 amination. but denied that the sub stance of the letter was true. Mrs. Hendrlckson testified but briefly, not being subjected to cross examination. Her testimony, designed for rebuttal of that of Henry Baer to the effect that he had seen but the signature sheet f the articles of incorporation in-corporation at the time of signing and never had opportunity to read them, was to the effect that she droe with her husband to the Baer home on the day of Mr. Baer's signing and that she had the articles of incorporation I in her keeping during the trip She 1 said they were rolled up and ther were several sheets of paper, that her I husband had handed them to hr ; when she jrav,- up the driver's seat of the automobile to him after calling for him with the car at his office. Miss Thomas testified suosiantlally the same, saying she had Joined the Hendrlckson for the ride to the Baer residence, three miles out of Logan, Mrs. Hendrickson's little daughter nnd her niece beinu the s4her occupants of the car. Both witnesses agreed (hey were about half an hour at th-Baer th-Baer place. Mr. Hendrickson going to the barn to find .Mr. Baer, who previously prev-iously lestllied that he signed in the cowyard. laying the alleged single signature sig-nature sheet submitted to him over his knee and using a pen furnished b Hendrickson. Miss Thomas volunteered volun-teered that th time of waiting for Mr. HendricUson might have sfomJ'd long to her because of the fact that she had a date to go to a movie stioif ' that evening. Cognizant of Offer. I Mr Scowcroft and Mr Taylor testified testi-fied they were cognizant, a officials nf the Amalgamated Sugar company, of an offer made by I,. H K ch-s t, the defendant of 975.000 for the Knight sugar factor ycontracf. but they were of the opinion that Mr. Ec-1 cles had acted on his own initiative J and that the directorate of the com-1 pany had negatived the Idea upon formal for-mal consideration. This proved In accord ac-cord vith minutes nf th board's proceedings, pro-ceedings, which were read into the court proceedings. Mr. Scowcroft ad-l mitted the Vm.ilL'amaied . uriHi.uiy had m fell n bad a i ht in i ... u'v vni- . I ley because of the development of thtl Wgar beet industry there and (hat tho . j promotion of an Independent faciofty 1 had hastened the building of the m Amalgamated company's factory at 1 j Smithtieid Neither Mr Scowcroft nor '1 Mr Taylor was cross examined. .Mr. Scot! and Mr i ladh y testifli d thej made Mi- audit presented ti-Spproval ti-Spproval a I the -irickholders' meetln j of lime 1. litis held at Logan. BoUi I U ttlflt d Mr Hendi i ksnu produced the Km . i he mi el iii- l error of $2.; 1 000 in the report and that, in answer to Mr Woolley'e question, he admlttfl I 1 that the oniraei was the property of M the West i lache Sucir company and -j turned It over to th aecretarv at Mr. 1 I Woolley's request. Examination Brief 1 Both denle having heard what wif- I n5 for the plaifrUff testified thev I heard, that Mr nendrl kson had al- M mitted. on beinc que-dloned, that th J m contract was negotiated for nd on M behalf of the West ('ache Sugar com- t M pany ami that it always had been th propi m com pan) Mr Scott was briefly cros J xamlned M r Hadle) w.i kiven moi ' M attention by counsel for the plaintiff, i m nd finish for the day's session. |