New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-16
The Sugar Refinery snindle.

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The sugar refinery swindle, which has Civ.
eninventors in New York and across the
pond an electric shock during the last few
days, still remains aschief topic of discussion.
The strange aspects of the great fraud have
resulted in several wild theories. Prominent
among these is the suggestion that Prof.
Freund may not be dead. The funeral on that
blizzard day, and the fact that the cemetery
records of burial are said to be wanting gives
rumor a semblance of probability In view
of this great fraud and the people connected
with it, the following article from the New
York Sun Of July 90, 1876, makes interest
+ ing reading:
Henry Cotterill of London, who had enjoyed
an unimpeached reputation and numbered
among his clients many great mercantile
( houses, came to New York about Eve years
eco and opened an Office at Mo- 81 Nassau
street., and his European reputation, his
kno Wedge Of mercantile law and his familiar
ity with the practice of British courts won
for him q good array of clients English
merchants, widows, pensioners and Others
having claims originated abroad. Then Mr..
Cotterill enlarged the sphere of his operations
and undertook the Investment of money be-
longing to his clients. Within the past Eve
weeks Mr.. Cotterill has been rarely found in
his Office, still he satisfactorily explained
away his absence, saying that he had urgent
business in Boston and elsewhere. One Of his
most conffding clients, who had given him
charge of $22, O0Ofor reinyestmenb,w was g. Mai.
Patterson, late of the British army, q vete-
ran who had retired from the service and
came to America to find q home for himself
and his aged mother. Distrustful Of the law
yer, the major went to Boston and found
him Cotterill apologized gracefully, and
said that he would return to New York at
once and hand him over his money. He did
return to the city, but when the major called
at the lawyers office it was empty Then the
major hurried to Cotterill's family home and
found that also vacated On Saturday an. S,
Mrs. Cotterill who is an educated and well
born woman, and her eight children took
passage in the steerage in the England, their
tickets having been provided by contribu-
tions raised by the rector of the church she
attended, her husband having left her wholly
destitute. Cotterill has gone away with
over $40, 600
Maj Patterson and his mother are both
dead. "a
John N. Lingle, postmaster Of Webb City,
/ Mo-, committed suicide by shooting himself
though the brain with q revolver. During
the day j ]. Nelson, postofiice inspector, had
examined the accounts of the Office and
found g shortage Of $3.50
Another complica lion has arisenat Helena,
Mont, to prevent the recovery Of George
Godas, the half murderer now il jail
at Regina, an. w. o., under extradition to
the United States Sheriff Jefferies, who II
lsauthorized by President Cleveland to go az
ter Godas received q telegram from the Can
Iaadian auth orities that the governor generals
warrant designates Hathaway, Jeffsries' pre-
decessor, as the man to receive Godas, and
has wired Secretary Bayard, asking him e
inform the Canadian government that Jener
les j. authorized to receive the prisoner Hi,
case waA to hare come up at the supreml