New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-11
MIR. ROBERTSON rs DUMB.
SUGAR MEN WILL NOT TALK.
THE ENGINES IN THE FACTORY ARE KEPT hun
NrNc-somE NEW FACTS ABOUT FREUND.

rur ENGINES IN THE FACTORY ARE KEPT Run
NrNG-soME NEW FACTS ABOUT FREUND.
Tho officers Of the Electric Sugar Refining Com
Many are now consistent in their decision to Keep
further information ABOUT the great scheme iroil
the public The most ingenious questioning couu
not move Mr.. Robertson yesterday 10 disclose ,no
contents of another letter from President Co..er.
and even Lawson N. Fuller, who has peeh hocrai
in his communications since tho exposure, rcfra'ncu
from saying anything beyond expressing MS sa.siao
tion with the way things going up In Michigan
under the car. of Mr. Coterill. At the factory In
BroolIyn matters remain as they have been' but q
lIttls additional light was thrown on some OF inc
mysteries over there by Joseph Devave the engnccr
The whole building is practically barricaded ana inc
most extraordinary and inexplcable caution Is OBJ
served By the haldozen men who are In the building
Mr.. Devalve himself was not over-communicati'o'
According to the engineer however, the secict
chambers are situated respectively the fifth and
fourth floors. The top is lined with 31o sheet
iron while tho lower one has triple inning ol
wooden casing The doors OF both consist OF scfios
of superimposed layers OF iron and wood. and arc
supplied with combination locks. most strahgo iacS
IS that even now, after The officers claim 10 nave
fully described the interior Of these rooms, specia
gai-relicfs are posted for the purpose OF watching
these two rooms, so that not even tho employees
may approach them. There are six regular employees
In the factory, who work at the machinery. Five
engines are kept running, for no other purpose sad
Devalvc, than to avoid rstlng.
1t was learned yesterday that the Frcunds, during
tbs time they lived at No. 2o7 East slxtieth-st were
the subject Of much comment among tho people Ok
the neiehborhood account OF their mysterious
ecceptricities The Professor was wont to hoursh
rolls of crisp bills and to startle shophoeperS
by asking for change for q thousand" Az bioom
ingdse Brothers. at Fifty -ninh-st and Thr'ave the
Frcunds were known to have purchased, at one ume'
as much as 81 900 worth of goods.
Dr. Z. c. Spitzka, the brain specialist, OF NO Ils
Lexington ave. was called In to attend treund lass
February The Doctor found the Professor suier-
ing from general paralysis and discovered that 'h'
potent had been fed with alcoholic stimHan's
until his brain tissue had begun to disinsegra'o
The doctor considered the surroundings OF the insane
man of such peculiar character that he decuneo 70
attend him further. DR. Sptzka went TO treulgl ,
house at the instance of simeon Nahneim' u'ueri'"
of Fifty -ninth-st and Thlrdaye ,.,
Mr. Mannheim said that Freund had purchascu
hts drugs at the Mannheim store. At frequent intervals
he came In and bought glycelfne carbonc aclu anu
ammonia usually in the proportion Of six pounds OF
ammonia two pounds of carbolic acid ana Two pounus
of giycerne Those were the only chemicals frennd
bought In February Mr. Mannheim heard OF Frcund 8
Illness although no medicine had ever been sent for
The druggist inquired whether doctor had been called
and recommended DR.. Spitzha