New-York tribune., 1878-11-22
FRAUDS IN COLORED SUGARS.

COMMENTS ON THE BALTIMORE TRIAL.
THE DECISION DISCUSSED BY SPECIAL AGENTS
AND OTHERs-FVE SUITS TO DE BROUGHT IN
THIS CITY AND BROoKLYN-DR. GIDEoN T.
MOORE's REVIEW OF THE TRIAL AND ITS
EFFECTS.
The decision Just reached by Baltimore
Jury In the test case arthoiay cOlored grade Dem
erara sugars was the subject Of general discussion
yesterday among Custom House officials and brokers'
and It's effect tho suits in this city was
commented Special Agent Chamberlain SAID
that he regarded the verdict complete We
tory for the Treasury Department in estao-
fishing the fact that the sugars had been artcaly
colored. The law requires" he added that in cases
of this kind the Judge specifically charge the jury
on two pOntshrst, in regard TO the artificial c0'orng
and, second in regard to the guilty intent OF tne
claimants The fight on behalf OF the Government was
establish the fact that the coOring was artificial ana
that it was introduced sugars to evade the
revenue This the Jury established beyond doubt
and there will be trouble in collecting the proper
duties that should have been paid according to inc
actual color test"
Another specal agent said: The failure Of the jury
to establish the guilty intent leaves the Government
poweress to forfeit the sugars in cOntrovers the law
providing that unless intent to defraud shall be so
found no fine penalty or forfeiture shall he imposed
The fact that the sugars artcaly coored TO de-
fraud the revenue found the Government, and 1t
will furnish the basis for future classcations OF i
ported sugars This verdict entirely upsets the theory
that has prevailed in the Appraisers department, that
there was no such thing artllcally cOOred sugar
and hereafter dutes will he collected the actual and
not the imported color heretofore. In some in
stances, Demerars and Cuba low-grade sugars have
been passed at IN cents pound, which, diyested Of
the cOlOring material, would test to No. 10 Dutch
standard, and should pay duty OF from TO cents
pound see reason by this decision why the GOV
ernmeut has good in this city it had in
h,,tf fIo
right the Government to sue IN pers0ndm Tor tbs
strict value of duties The evidence in tue to be
tried here much stronger TO intent. and IL prob
able that test will be made both the color fraud
and the intent and suits will also be brought for the
proper duty that should have been paid al the time the
cargoes passed"
The first SEIZURE tha made IN this city cargo
on the bark Golden Fleece consigned TO H. Trowbrdgcs
Sons, OF New Haven This was followed by seizure Of
the cargo OF the bark Reindeer consigned TO the
firm. The other cargOes whCh VIII be liugdtcd were
Ieaycraft Il Co, and Others. test will be-
made cargo OF Cuba colored sugars, consigned TO
Charles Durant Co. The actual duties pad were:
Leaycraft & Co., $4,000; Armstrong Co, Si6263;
S2SssO It ia estimated Dy customs officers that the
Government will gain over 100000 by these suits
District-AttOrney WOodford asked yesterday how
long before the trial OF the sugar fraud cases would he
begun He replied that he had not yet received any pos
tive instructions about them There VAS large mum
her of the calendar many OF which were press
ng, and lie declined 10 anything further upon the
subject until he had received orders IRON the treasury
Department.
Dr. Gideon f. Moore, who was one OF the experts for
the Government the tral Baltimore, said yestcr
DAY: Great interest manifested IN the The
courtroom thrOngcd continually. and on one
sion the crowd was 40 great that no saiOngl"O was
left Soon after the was given 10 the jury they
stood nine for the Government and two for the de
fierce, the twelfth juror having been taken sick
during the tial, and an agreement having beeu
morning the jury stood ten to for The Government
The evidence OF the experts for the Government
for the defence failed, aud in some particulars
badly cut up The Jury was composed OF an intelligent
OF and although the counsel for the defence
made able and brilliant summing up, 1t was plainly
evident that the Government was gong to be victorious.
The witnesses from Demerara admitted the COOrmg of
the sugars but claimed that II done by leaving the
impurities IN The sugar ana not Dy attnciai cooring
IN large crystals, because the mOlasses would readily
Is free from coloring matter in substance The coloring
! matter external and could be readily washed off
experts for the Government thought that there was
large quantity OF sulphu1c acd which evidently had
not entered the cane ny he process OF Yegetatl9I The
defence denied that suphuric acid was used In the
manufacture OF these sugars. but II was shown conclu
vely that the acId had been ADDED either during INC
process OF manufacture or afterward. District
| Attorney Strings address was very able and
| lucid and he showed an astonishing mastery OF
| chemical points IN the evidence. lie completly
rcfuted the objections Of the counsel for The
| defence and the attempts 10 obscure Ihe chemical
| testing for the Government, ana demonstrated
was beyond dispute" The testimony was voluIninGus
comprising nearly 1900 pages The ncx sugar trials
yn. Among other scientific experts for the Government
were DR.. Gideon f. Moore, of Jersey CITY; Professor
johnson, Of Yale College, Professor Collier chemist Of
the agricultural Department at Washington and Pro
fcssOfs Sader and f. a. Genth, Of the University Of
| Pennsylvania.
In conversation yesterday about the adueratiOn Of
refined sugars DR.. Moore said that he had had
little time examine the question, but he would
this much that the OF TIN IN refining sugar very
reprehensble and its presence III the sugar very u
TiOus to health. AL such sugar should be rlgidly
cluded from commerce. The addition or glucose to
sugar he did not think In Itself injurious hut IL had
off nf ui a flp
sugar, nd therefore was fraud upon the consumer