The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-06
SUGAR BY ELECTRICITY.
THE STOCK OF THE BIG REFINERY
NOW WORTHLESS.


for the Alleged Purpose of "squeez-
ing" One OF the Professors Partners
The Terms of His Agreement with
the Capitalists.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.--The leading topic Of
conversation among brokers and business
men down town to-day was the great expose
Of the late Prof Friends electric sugar re-
fining company. Secretary Robertson of
the defunct concern while sitting in his
office to-day was nearly paralyzed by a
well-known Wall street man asking him for
ten shares, and Offering him $40 each for
them. Mr.. Robertson told the man that
the shares were worthless. The man in
sisted and the ale WAS effected. The pur-
chase Of these shares to-day was for the
purpose. it is said, of squeezing" w. E.
Howard when he is caught.
HowARD's PART.
Howard is the man who swoFe before
notary public that he bad seen 1.-The profess
sor' refine raw sugar by electricity. TIE
president If the defunct concern, Mr.. Cot
te,ill, has gone to Milan, Mich, where
Mrs. Friend, Howard and the two Hal
steads are said to be living. 1t is now
hinted that Friend is not dead at ALL There
has not been anybody found, SO far, who
has seen his corpse His death is said to
have occurred two days before the blizzard
Of last March.
MRS. FRIEND has ANOTHER SECRET.
ANN ARRoR, Mich, Jan. 5,-Persons in
terested in the "E ectric" sugar refining
frauds at New York, have been in consul
tstion with Sawyer & Knowlton. attor-
neys here, for several days pa t. The pr esi-
dent Of the company has been hero and met
Mrs. Friend ana the Howards and Hal
steads, all of whom live in Milan, this state
Mrs. Friends astorney says that there was
no intentional f aud, but that the company
was to furnish money to equip a refinery for
refining sugar by Prof. Friends
secret urocess. The company alleged that
the refining was to be done from raw sugar
This she cannot do.
FRIENDS CONTRACT,
The contract her husband made was to
refine cane sugar at so cents per ton, or to
sell out his stock and the secret for $3.50, ,000
after everything was running. The com
pany has been running five years
and put in over 100000, but no
sugar has yet teen refined for market Mr..
Friend says that the company ara now try
ing to force from her another secret by
ich she makes a superior article of sugar
from grapes, instead of getting the secret
their contract calls for, This last secret she
refuses to divulge f + any amount. No ar
rests have been made and none even threat
ened by the company's agent, who returned
to New York Wednesday. Mrs. Friend
says she is the only one of the party inter
ested in the transaction, the others being
merely employees.
NO CRIMINAL ASPECT.
DETROIT, jan. 5.--Tbe Journals Ann
Arbor special says in regard TO tine electric
sugar refining people that there is no Grim
inal aspect ia the case, so far as it has de-
veloped there. President Cottrell has beeu
making strenuous efforts to settle with the
Friends, who will not give up unless tbey
are well paid. They still insist that the
process is exactly what the contract
calls for. The Journal has seen the
contract and it makes no mention
of manufacturing sugar from raw ma erial
The men who pose as d Ipes confess this.
The whole thing has been precipitated by
the English So ckhoide.s. Cottrell and
others who got the Engllshmen to subscribe
now want to get control. Mrs. Friend and
Howard own a II sjority of the stock and
alleged secrets. The only way the dupes
eau determine wLethor or not they have
been duped is TO get control
MRS. FRIEND TOO SHARP
Mrs. Erie d is too sharp to be frightened
into giving up any secrets. There are
people at Milan who believe that PROT
Friend is still alive. Mrs. Howard said to
Journal reporter this mo ming, during
the course of conversation; "You Will
nave to see Prof, Friend aud Mrs. FRIEND
before anything is done"
The Journal at once asked: "Where is
Prof. Friend" TO which she replied: "Oh,
oh, he's dead"
Lawyer Sawyer believes, however, that
Prof. Friend is dead, and nearly everybody
else believes this Drink caused his DEATH
The NEGOTIATIONS were all stopped last night.
Both sides are rsting on their arms. Mrs.
Friend and Howard went into the country
last evening.