Evening journal., 1889-06-15
coTTERILL,s feAR OF TRAITORS.
He Adopted Novel scheme TO Get
Ahead of Them.


Ahead of Them.
Ex-Parson Howard, who helped to
work the electric sugar racket so success
fully on some weak minded stockholders,
was placed on the stand again yesterday.
The ex-parson began where he left of
Yesterday and continued his story of how
himself and President Cotterill had ar.
ranged things so as to make a big dis
play in the factory" Then he started
TO tell how Cotterills came to him and
said I'VE must make big test-2O0
barrels--so that we will paralyze the
stockholders; then the money will
roll in. / protested against the
200 barrel test, said the ex-reverend
witness, $50 we compromised on a 100
barrel test. Then ne smiled as he con
tinued; Il bought the sugar for that test
already refined at Theodore Apgar's
under the name of William Eaton.
assumed this name because Cotterill
wanted to keep the business quiet.
This closed the direct examination and
the witness turned his benevolent face
on District Attorney Follows, who began
to cross-examine him.
He was serene when It started, but as
the district attorney began to worm facts
out of him in connection with his past
life the witness began TO squirm la his
chair, and ere long his eccentric disposi-
tion obtained full play.
Colonel Fellows brought out the fact
that Howard left his wife and children
in Rhode Island, went to Michigan and
about year later married his present
wife. Mrs. Van Ness, whose husband
was still alive Howard never rejoined
his family in Rhode Island, but con
trubuted to their support.
do you know the defendant, Hattie
| Wilson, asked Colonel Fellows.
"What? That wretch that was here?
Yes; | saw her, but never took out Of
Friends house those sacks, as she
claimed"
"Why did you tell the carman, Suli-
van, who carted away the barrels from
Dey street, TO take them to the foundry
in Brooklyn and load them with sugar2'
1T was because it was easier to load
them with sugar in the foundry than in
the factory Besides it accommodated
all purposes
"Why transfer the boxes from the
factory to the foundry
Because | was accommodating Cot
terill. He said 1t was a great deal bet
ter TO do this because there were too
many traitors in the factory. There's
something behind all this.
At this point Colonel Fellows surprised
him by asking him if he ever rented a
theatre in this city. Howard was forced
into saying that he had. 1t was the Mt.
Morris Theatre in Harlem, but he merely
rented IL for the Friends. When asked
if he bought SO, 600 worth of property in
Milan, Michigan, year ago he
/ caf1 ha Fh,ttrbf h.. haA nd Ahfo
money was the result Of his saw
ings. When the deed was placed before
him he had remembered that he had done
so, and since his arrest transferred it to
his wife He did not know from actual
| knowledge whether Cotterill, by telling
him to give false tests, that he meant to
deceive the company's stockholders, but
he said he supposed that was Cotterills
intention.
Colonel Fellows Eyes, belive there
is something behind all this.
"Cotterill was as much to blame as
was about this, Howard retorted.
"You say Cotterill was bent on deceiv-
ing PeopleY
"Well, yes-if It's a compliment to you
| will say so. He stood at the wheel and
was the laborer on the machinery"
"Why did you write Cotterill that il
Friend was playing mule you would
euchre him2"
"Wen, | don't know; that word
'euchre comes from Cotterill. He Is the
greatest man in the world on that.
when did your license of minister
expire2'
Il don't know; why do you bother
about thatl Talk of the boxes"
The case will likely be given to the
] Jury on Monday. New York Press.