The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-06-21
ROBBED UNCLE SAM 9 YEARS.
ASSISTANT HkIGHER sIMoNs cooLLT
owns UP 10 IT ALE

AssTsTANT HEIGHER sIMONs CooLLF
| owns Up 10 IT ALE
ne u,serve,ehed Goods for Cash and ne
Got 0e 900 Fror, Ono Importer Alone
| DISCHARGED for " Inc fneiency Fus-
| tow Paid by Check TO Bearer.
Carl Won Pustow. importer and Custom
House broker. his partner. Otto Schneider.
and John Fortmnn their shipping clerk. were
arrested in April charged with paying Edward
Simons. an assistant welgher In the public
stores. to underwcigh largo importation OF
flrecrackcrs which arrived on the steamship
Austria on Nov. 20 last Won Pustow was on
trial yesterday before Judge Benedict and
Jury in tho United States Circuit Court.
The first witness called by the prosecution
was John Fortman. the shipping clcrk. who
| gets Sl2 week. He said that he mot Simons
| In tho street few days before tho arrival
| OF the Austria and had some conversation
| with him. Simons preached the subject OF
underweighing tho 4,344 packages OF fire.
crackers. Simons intimnted that he would
unierwciRh the goods II tho right thing were
done by him. Fortman reported this CONVEX
sation to Mr.. Won Pustow, who made no reply.
Simons had given Fortman memorandum
slip on which was written tho true weights OF
portion OF tho packages OF flrecrackers and
the allowances" he would make in weigh
| ing them. Fortman aiterward destroyed this
| paper.
| Tho witness then told Of paying two sums OF
| money to Simons. Both were In checks. but
he could not remember the amounts Some
time before Christmas. he thought 1t was. he
| found on his desk q check made payable to the
benrcr He gave it to simons. Shortly after
ward he Gavo another check to Simons. He
| did not rem ember who gave the last check to
| him. 1t also was payable to bearer. He
| thought Won Pustow had drawn the last check
the had eesn re
If h s'g paper lie ad eaa rustCWs
| desk.
On cross-examination Fortinan said that
Schneider usually made the customs entries.
h sore After mak fS" tho Ssee pay
ment he had again seen SimonS. and had paid
give to Special agent Gin order to have
tho rcweiShinE OF tho gSGds Mt the stores ores
he thought that part of the goods had been re-
When Assistant District Attorney ,Evarts
aeety or
tow. The witness hesitated and looked at his
Did you say indirectly 7"
Yes Directly or inhiGoctly.",
man said that tho body Of them was not in Won
Pust9ws handwriting. The signatures were
cross. examination that Fortman, had had
trouble with Simons about the allowances,
simons would not give moro than three
pounds.
Sny Sar no hs he ap I'd
actions; He said that Won Pustow. through
ers underweighed four pounds n package. Ho
had agreed to underwegh them but ia q
and he met tho S '' soS o' be-
tween Bcekman and Fulton streets. about 3
o'clock in tho afternoon. and the clerk paid
afternoon. Fortmnn gave him. $3.50 more. He
made out tho statements Of Weights and al
"sssted NY y warR i. f Michael pion lie Tss
duced the weights three pounds package;
simon i,' and he said that it was a book in
which he had kept record OF tho weights Of
the nackages in Eon PTstows Invoices All
short. He had copied the weights into the
memSrandum hook from the scrap book. in
taken, Tho weights Of the, packages weighed
by Dillon had been entered by him in a SCRAP
memorand um book. ieiucing each Weight throo
R ssns" * 5as
weights which he he signed with the list as he
said to the old mans honesty.
Simons said that no had been an assistant
toned about himself. he adWitted that he had
been arrested once in New York.
Q-Were you arrested before you were arrested in
this easel Al no. been arrested Il nv cas-.
Q.CYou were discharged from the Appraisers stores'
8.-%Sss,. A.r rps ,a ~ ,s,,
gin this case YES.
allow long had it been going on' Alt is impot
Q.-Ior long period of timo' A-Yea
3-Wetll how long; A;d ds,s 1882
,Q-And you always go: something for t' A.-weL
Q-You usually got money. didn't your A.-Alvays.
Albert G: c. Saxton a liIniiating clerk in
OF Won Pustows invoice, weighed 3I,314
pounds T a We're Suffered at - 49, pounds
SV at esht cenIs poud sins 1 tn
Sl.75l.I2. The entire lot had been reduced
81 5%UnRWds naGfSinge ch,o, withdrawal, oor.
first called for twenty packages and was en-
Ser" ind catons on it thai thu oiii:ss Of The
as something seemed to DO wrong With tho,
weights. The weights were entered at $4,000
pounds: They y were really TITO pounds o
There wHs no applliSca,ticn for reWssGhins:
which he SAID was n statement OF the ease
which Won lustow had voluntarily written out
and given to him: Questioned, by ton rrus;;
agreed with Non pustow not to use tho state
nent against him. The statement, Whitehead
said was copied from Won Pustow's books. 1t
showed that Fortman had paid Simons at dif-
fercnt times nearly $1,000 for underweishin.
invoices which had arrived on dozen dill.
fcrcnt ships.
- The foreign value OF the nrecrackcrs in Won
PnStow's invoice was Sl4.O75.,.5, tho duties
SlS.224.t4. and tho home value So, 300. ia.
Tho lot was seized. and will be sold at auction
N the Federal building some time before tho
Fourth of July.
Tho prosecution finished it's case Yesterday
Tho defence will so on this morning.