The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-10
REBATE INDICTMENTS.
FEDERAL GRAND JURY FINDS
EIGHT IN SUGAR CASES.

new York Central and Other Corporations
Ac~Cused-sixteen Now in All
OF the Cases VIII BE Called To-day, but
win Not Come 20 Trial Until Monday.
The Federal Grand Jury before being
discharged yesterday filed eight additional
indictments against the New York Central
Railroad and several other corporations
and persons for giving or receiving rebates
on sugar shipments made by the Amsrioan
Sugar Refining Company to the West. The
defendants have b5en summoned to plead
before Judge Hough this morning. when the
New York Central will be called DO the bar
70 stand trial on the first Of the rebate in
dictments found. These now total sixteen.
The trial OF the railroad company will
not begin in earnest to-day, however.
It was announced by one Of the attorneys
FOR the Government that Judge Hough
will merely set the formal opening OF the
trial for Monday, for which day the numer-
Gus witnesses will be summoned.
The eight indictments found yesterday
grow out Of the investigation begun by
United States District Attorney Henry l..
Stimson and Assistant United States Attor-
ney Wise last winter. They all allege the
giving or receiving Of rebates on shipments
by the sugar trust at various times from
1902 to 1905.
One Of twelve counts against the New
York Central for giving rebates on sugars
to the Brooklyn Cooperage Company.
the shipping end of the trust, is identical.
except in legal phraseology, with one on
which the railroad will soon be tried and
will only be used in case that one fails TO
hold,
Another OF the eight accuses a corpora
ton not hitherto named in the indictments.
This is the Northern Steamship Company,
the great lakes carrying line of the Great
Northern Railroad, which is accused of
giving rebates on sugar shipments from
Buffalo 10 West Superior, MINI, to the
American Sugar Refining Company Of
New York and the American Sugar Re-
companies Of the sugar trust.
There are two counts in this indictment.
which charges the two companies OF the
trust with accepting the rebates from
the steamship company. There Is also
a complementary bill to the one contain
ing twelve counts against the Central.
This likewise contains twelve counts against
the Brooklyn Cooperage Company for
accepting the drawbacks from the rail-
road. A third brace is against the Western
Transit Company, the lake carrying branch
Of the Central. Each contains one count.
The two remaining bills in yesterdays
batch are against the two sugar companies
and Edwin Earle and c. Goodloe Edgar,
Detroit merchants, for accepting rebates
under seven counts from the Central, and
against he Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company, in ten counts,
for giving rebates to Lowell NJ. Palmer Of
Palmer's Docks, a part Of the trust.
All these indictments allege the giving
or receiving of rebates Of from ? to 10
cents per hundred pounds on sugar ship
ments through to the West in amounts
$40, 900 can be imposed for each separate
under which the me and corpora
ions are found guilty.
The first three Of the six indictments
found last spring will be tried successfully
by the Government at the term Of the
United States Crimina Court beginning
to-day. Tn first OF these is against the
Central alone and contains several counts.
IL will take several months to try.