Evening journal., 1889-01-07
THE SUGAR sCHEMERS.
Friend, the Inventor, Died OF
Alcoholism.
is MRS. FRIEND IN CANADA
How the Gay Quintet Feasted on the
Proceeds of Their Mammoth swindIe.
Biooded Horses by the Score and 8ku-
steal Instruments by the Dozen.

AEocteNe OF Ahelf MAmhoth NNAhuie
Biooded Horses by the Score and Slu.
steal Instruments by the Dozen.
New YoRK, Jan. THUS far the only as
sets which the English shareholders in the
Electric Refining company can seize ON are
an old man named Jerry, a copper pail and
a saddened memory Of the interesting Mr..
Friend. Three men drove up in a covered
carriage to Jefferson Market court YESTERDAY
morning and had a lengthy private interview
with the police justice They carefully con.
cealed their identity. but it soon became AZ
open secret that they were small investors
who had read that Mr.. Friends reported
death was, like his life, sham, and they
wanted warrant for his arrest Even this
little consolation, however, was not vouch.
safed them, FOR Mr.. Friend is in the better
land
All that remains Of his mortality is in o
handsome coffin up in the mortnary at One
Hundred and Flfty-ffth street and Tenth
avenue, in this city. Still it may be some
little matter Of interest to the mourners tc
know that their money was used freely in
killing him. He drank himself TO death.
DR.. John b, Crosby, who attended him
during his last spres, said yesterday:
"Friend is certainly IN the bosom Of Abra
ham, and if 1t is permitted him to talk In
that place | have little doubt that lie has
poor Abrnhams brain swimming with wild
schemes this very afternoon. / attended
him frequently in professional way and he
was perfect marvel, stoclSily built and inn
pulsive, and ever ready and competent tt
talk on any subject. 1t is nonsense for any.
body to suppose that he is living. He died
from alcoholism You may be astonished al
what viii tell you, but it is positive fact
that that man drank every day that knew
him one gallon Of the best brandy that he
could get
ut was simply idle to try to stop him. He
was accustomed to having his own win graft.
fled and could not be broken from it. He
could talk entertainingly on any subject. but
when that talk would drift toward chemistry
he was positively charming.
"Did he ever with you drift toward hil
great sugar schemer
"Oh, yes,n laughed the DOCTOR ''many a
time he did, but there were a good many
things / didn't understand about it, and ]
steered clear II his machinery was only the
size Of copper pail and worked practically
Of itself, | never could see the necessity oi
having this man Howard and two other.
mixed up with him. / thought the affair a
sham, and | told some Of the stockholders so
Besides, you know added the doctor. VIII,
IS still bachelor, ~ was aware that Mrs
Friend declared she knew the secret, and thai
made me exceedingly suspicious | concluded
that there was no secret about 1t to divulg,
or she would have divulged it She wasn'
the sort Of lady to sit down and make ne,
life weary with the weight Of secre
upon it.n
1t was a queer family the Friends had a
their home in East Sixtieth street in thi
city while they were manipulating the mon
eyed men Of the two continents Frient
himself had a great love for music, and, II
addition 10 a piano, he had handsome musi,
boxes, one Of which cost 81 500. placed a
every room. When be would become mellow
with brandy he would order each Of thes,
boxes wound up and set the whole agony in
motion To intensity the matter he would
insist that Mrs. Friend, who didn't know one
note of music from another, should play q
gavotte upon the grand piano. Howard, the
mutual friend, was facetious fellow. On
Sundays he would preach from the city hal
steps, but every evening found him and the
mysterious Gus and the other pal playing
stud poker in Friends back parior
Life was riot with the gay quintet. In
their home they lived ON the choicest, and
when outside they rode only on rich cushions
IN gay dogcarts, behind blooded horses
Twenty-seven Of the latter assisted them "a
enjoy life OF course, they sometimes went
TO the factory ON Hamilton avenue, Brook
lyn, but only when the notion suited them
Jerry, the mysterious man, kept guard on
the premises in Brooklyn. When Secretary
Robertson or President Cotterill strayed
anxious.y over to it, Jerry would peep at
them through the little portfolio in the door.
and would summarily drive them off
with threat that he would blow
them into next week II their exit
was not both rapid and immediate. Jerry Is
still in the building, and three employees Of
the company who have taken possession OF it
have been trying to get the secret from the
old servant, but Jerry's only answer Is a
very prolonged and significant whistle. Last
evening be was asked to take them to the
machinery that Friend ran in the building
With great gravity the old fellow led them
to sort Of cupboard, in which he pointed
out large tin pail
What do you call thatgH asked one Of
them.
Il dunno what the boss called it. cali
il growler,'n was the reply OF Jerry. ana
he sighed as he thought Of the trips It had
made from the factory TO Higgins barroom
across the street.
A secret conference of many Of the leading
stockholders was held late on Saturday even.
ing, bat no action was resolved upon. Pend
ing advices from President Cotteril who
has not yet got home from Michigan. where
he is pursuing the remnants Of the band of
imposters, it is not likely that ANYTHING
definite will be done. Mr.. Friends attor.
neys, however, have evinced disposition To
show fight in the matter They insist that
the original contract between Friend and the
company called for process Of clarifying or
Of improving refined sugars and not OF refin-
ing sugar from the raw material. They hint
that Mrs. Friend has another secret in the
shape Of how sugar may be made from
grapes, but she does not propose to part with
1t without couple Of millions OF dollars
more.
The losses viii be mainly on the other
side Of the water A very considerable nor
tion Of the stock held in this country and in
Canada was purchased cheaply, and ia many
instances enough of it resold at a premium
sufficient almost to recoup them for their
original investment
ANN ARBoR, Jan. Mrs. Friend exc
cuted mortgage to William d. Hartman
Friday for $1,000, on all her real estate.
Mrs Howard executed another mortgage on
the same day Of $4,000 ON everything they
had Mrs. Friend and George Halstead took
the train east Friday, she stating that She
was going to New York Holstead returned
the next morning. Several trunks we've
taken from Mrs Friends house Saturday
and 1t is said she has skipped to Cannda
Mrs Friends country house at Milan
would grace New York Ii is fitted up in
sumptnous manner. She was quite an adj