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Show Cross Examination of John A. Hendrickson by Attorney Is Under Way SALT LAKE, April 20. Cross-examination of John A. Hendrickson by Herbert Her-bert R. McMillinn, attorney for the Amalgamated Sugar 'company, occupied occu-pied the greater part of yesterday's session ses-sion of the sugar hearing before Judge Joseph J. Dunham, -examiner for the federal trade commission, of the complaint com-plaint against the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, tho Amalgamated company and others. Mr. Hendrickson, one of the promoters and formerly president of the West Cache Sugar company, had testified on direct examination concerning alleged interference by the big companies with his project to put a factory on, tho west side of the Bear river in Cache county. The questions asked of Mr. Hendrickson Hen-drickson were devoted principally towards to-wards bringing out that he went into the sugar factory promotion business purely for personal gain', and furthermore, further-more, to discredit the previous statements state-ments made by Mr. Hendrickson. Refers to Decision. Mr. McMillian's efforts towards the latter object were directed chiefly through the introduction into the record rec-ord of this hearing of testimony, the complaint, answers, and final decree ot the Third district court of the case of the West Cache Sugar company against Mr. Hendrickson and Lorenzo M. Stohl. In that case, the. trial of which was held a year ago, judgment was awarded award-ed the plaintiff of 5150,850 for "secret profits" taken from the company in their promotion. Mr. Hendrickson denied that he started start-ed his projected factory for the sole purpose of forcing the Amalgamated to buy him out, but said tiiat his partner, Mr. Stohl, was willing to sell at any time, and that he got "cold feet" and wanted to get out. The witness denied de-nied that he had inserted an article into the corporation papers for the purpose pur-pose of facilitating a transfer of control. con-trol. Counsel for the .Amalgamated read into tho record a part of the amended answer of the witness in tho previous trial, in which it was set forth that he and Mr. Stohl were in a position to sell to any person at a profit after they had completed their contracts for the Knigut-Canadian plant and its transfer to.tnis country. Mr. Hendrickson'said the answer, to which he had previously sworn, was incorrect in that lie, Hen-di'ickson, Hen-di'ickson, was willing to sell. only on condition that the plant be erected in tiii W'ost Parhf diRtrlo.t. Lawyer Tells Why. At this point Henry Ward Beer, special spe-cial attorney for the federal trade commission, com-mission, conducting the case for the government, interposed objections to ths form of right cross-examination and asked Mr. Macmillan what was its purpose. To this Mr. Macmillan replied, re-plied, in part: "We want the commission to under-Island under-Island just v. hat caliber of man this witness wit-ness is who is making charges against some of the best citizens 'in Utah. We have reason to believe that Mr. Hendrickson Hen-drickson is one of the parties responsible respon-sible for the bringing of this complaint, anu it is our purpose to show the commission com-mission that here is a man who cannot be relied upon under oam." Mr. Macmillan introduced a letter Irom George T. Odell to show that Mr. Odell, W. W. Armstrong and other j Salt Lake men who had subscribed $9i,000 to the stock of Mr. Hendrick-aon's Hendrick-aon's first enterprise had done so on me distinct understanding that the Utah-ldano and the Amalgamated would have 50 per cent of the stock In the company. Then Mr. Beer stated that he will prove that Mr. Odell went to the United Unit-ed States district attorney, then W. W. Ray, to get protection for the contemplated contem-plated company against the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. It was shown that the first contracts for beets put out by Mr. Hendrickson's company contained a proviso that his concern would pay the farmers whatever what-ever the Amalgamated company would pay. It was while a discussion of this question was going on that Mr. Hendrickson Hen-drickson took occasion to pass a few compliments concerning Ernest R. Woolley, who succeeded Mr. Hendrickson Hendrick-son as" president of the West Cache company, and who, as president, had instigated the suit against Messrs Hendrickson and Stohl. |