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Show mtdrnw i 111 Sensational Revelation In Sugar Underweigh-ing Underweigh-ing Frauds New York, Sept. 13. Sensational revelations of the methods employed In under elghing frauds were made on the witness stand today by .lames P. Hland, who was an assistant government gov-ernment weigher from 1S91 to testifying at the trial of George E. Podell, and other customs official, on underweighinc fraud charges. Hylaud was asked If he Lad ever done any undorwelghlng. "I underwelghed tho very first cargo I was assigned to weigh," was the. reply re-ply of the witness. Ho said he continued con-tinued undei weighing from that time on, receiving most of tho corruption money from "Pig George" I.iinny, who iias been described as "go-between' for Importers and welshers In bribery operations to secure under-weights. under-weights. The underweichor always pot half the amounts of the duties out of which the covernment was defrauded, defraud-ed, llyland testified. Ilyland said that at one time ho was not satisfied with the amount of his "rake off" at one flock and offorVd lie-dell lie-dell f.'.o a shift If he would have hliu transferred to a more fruitful field. The transfer was made, the witness testified. Bedell was chief clerk to Deputy Surveyor Vail, lie paid Bedell, Be-dell, on the average, Just what he promised to. llyland declared.' |