Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-15


President of the defunct company. A
charge of bigamy was introduced against
Howard, who was on the witness stand.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
NEW YORK, June 14.-District Attorney
Fellows got at Parson Howard to-day in the
Howards trial in the General Sessions.
Howard testified that after the death of
Prof. Friend in March, 1888, he succeeded
to the Professors right, title and interest in
the fitting up of the factory for chain light
ming sugar refining, and in the nine months
before the exposure came he had contrived
to draw pile of money from the American
and English stockholders through Mr.. Cot
terill. Mr.. Cotterill badgered him a great
deal about making demonstrations and tests
in the factory.
He testified that ne told Cotterill that the
only way in which he could getup "demon-
stratlon" was to get HaYemyer's & Elders
mold A refined sugar and run it through
the crusher and the sieves in the factory and
let it tumble down in beautiful white
stream into the waiting barrels below for the
mystitication of the Stockholders. Cotterill,
knowing his ignorance of the manner in
which the professor and Mrs. Friend pre-
pared the sugar for the demonstrations,
thereupon urged him to make run" at
all hazards.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS.
Recorder Smith-Wnat did run consist
OF then? Did it consist simply of taking
Havemyer & Elders sugar and running
1t down through the spouts?
''That is about it. :"
Then you never saw any raw sugar re-
fined and sent down the shutes into the de-
livery barrels at any of these demonstra-
tions?
b"Not pound" Cotterill, Howard said,
went to put up the job of deceiving the
stockholders. He told Howard where to
buy the refined sugar, and sent many bags
of raw sugar to the factory and had them
hoisted to the top floor. Then by Cotterills s
directions they were lowered through the
hopperhole into the strong room. Lying Just
beneath the hopper hole they embarrassed
Howard in his chain-lightning work in
the strong room. he wanted to move them
out into the big room off the strong room at
once, but Cotterill told him to wait until
after the demonstration. Cotterill said:
"Just keep the bags there 1 want the En-
glishmen to see them there, and then they
will go down to the delivery floor and see
refined sugar come through the spouts, and
will believe that the raw sugar has been re-
fined"
Howard did not suppose that Cotterill in
tended any fraud upon the unsuspecting
stockholders, but merely wanted to encour-
age them to put up more money. Howard
went down to his own machine on the floor
beneath the strong room, and soon after
Cotterill, who was running the crusher in
the strong room, sent down through the
tubes streams of refined sugar, which
Howard's sieves separated into various
grades and tumbled into the barrels on the
floor below.
HIS PAST HISTORY.
Under cross-examination Howard testi-
fed that in 1868 he left Rhode Island for
the West. He left a wife and children
there. They never joined him in the West.
He could not remember just when he mar
ried his present wife, and he did not know
when his Rhode Island wife died. He
learned of her death from letters of "some
parties" He couldn't swear that he had
not married again before his wife's death.
He thought it was in Joliet he married his
present wife. He could not say exactly who
married them. He thought it was Justice
of the peace, but he could not remember his
name.
He could not say whether this wife had a
husband living or not at the time that he
married her. Howard next testified that he
first went to Battle Creek, Mich, when he
went West and worked as a day laborer on
a hotel. When the hotel was built he was
employed as a clerk. He was also an agent
for the sale of lightning rods, and coinci-
dentally carried on his vocation as a Free
Baptist preacher.
He became minister in his twentieth
year. He first was preacher of the doc
trines of the Christian Baptist Church, and
finally went over to the Baptist Church.
He obtained license to preach, he thought,
Fellows remorseiessly demanded to know if
Howard had sworn by the uplifted hand,
because he regarded an oath taken il this
way as less binding.
'No stree, !" replied Howard. "I'll kiss
the Bible now if you say So"
SOME TALL FIGURING.
He testified next that, as result of 'tfg-
gering," he had made out the sum of S19,-
OU0 instead OF S0l,UUU as MS total receipts
from the stockholders in Friends chain
lightning process. He had no doubt that
Prof. Friend had genuine process. But
when Colonel Fellows confronted him with
a letter to Cotterill, in which he said
that he did not care about getting
hold of the "key" to the formula, because
it was not worth postage stamp; that he
could work the process without Friend or
Mrs Howard, and that if Friend tHied to be
'.muley" about it he could "uker" him.
He explained that he meant that be could
work the process we'll enough to suit Cot
terill, whose only desire was to get money
from the English and American stock
holders.
"Where did you get the term euchre?"
81 guess got that from Cotterill. He
was the greatest man for euchrelng people
you ever saw. He said he never got after
man vet that he didn't euchre him.
81 don't think you got your way of SPELL
ing euchre from him, though" rejoined
Colonel Fellows.
MAYBE didn't" growled Howard, net
tied by the laughter that his spelling
evoked. A little later he burst out with:
"There is something behind this. Cotterill
was responsible for everything. I'm being
made the butt of the whole thing. He was
as much implicated as L was 1 tell you,
and maybe more so.