New-York tribune., 1909-11-19
LOEB SUSPENDS SIX
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out before ne took Office. He has not
been hurried up recently. nor has the
legal end OF the work been fastened.
Everything is proceeding just as planned
long ago. and. furthermore. this clean
ing up and prosecuting of offenders WIN
not be confined to this port. The pro-
gramme of action extends TO every
branch OF the customs service through
out the country
Persons of an inquisitive turn of mind
are trying to find out what is at the
bottom of the II did il" battle among
those who furnished the information
upon which prosecution was begun and
among those who may have instituted
the investigation. IL was repeated
yesterday by a government official close
TO the administration that Richard Parr,
the Acting Deputy Surveyor who made
the raid two years ago. after spending
months on the docks 10 get evidence.
was the first TO report that frauds were
being committed on the Havemeyer &
Elder docks with sufficient clearness and
substantially 10 attract the attention of
the government.
PARR REPORTED TO ROOSEVELT.
Mr.. Parr was the whole reliance. and
is the present maInstay of the prose-
cution. the official said. The latter also
declared that Mr.. PAR reported his prog
ress direct 20 President Roosevelt. and
that the Treasury Department was ig
nored practically in the whole investiga-
tion. The same man said that there was
more back of this dispute than appeared
on the surface. The government was in
vestigating. he said, why Parr was sent
10 Maine from Boston. and compelled to
be away from this city for over two
years after he told his story of what he
had heard while a sugar samplers as
sistant on the docks.
Mr.. Wakeman said yesterday that
George +. Cross. head of the Secret Ser
vice here when the investigation of the
sugar frauds was begun. and now a spe-
ciaI agent az Buffalo. conducted the work
that led to the raid. Mr.. Cross said OF
the investigation:
1T all rests upon the discovery made
by Parr that scales were being tampered
with and that the sugar was being
wrongly appraised. Upon what Parr dis
covered the government based its sue
cessful suit
ANDERSON'S COUNSEL BUSY.
Counsel for Edwin I. Anderson one of
tho claimants for the moiety of about
100000. were busy with the latter's case
yesterday. Anderson was familiar fig
ure about the Federal Building last
spring when the suits against the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company were being
tried. He was never called as wit
ness one of the counsel for the gov
crnment said last evening that Ander-
son was there all the time, but when
he was asked to go on the stand refused
70 do so. saving that what he had 10 say
was only hearsay.
William J. Youngs. United states AZ
torney in Brooklyn, who began the pros
ecution of the sugar cases before they
we're transferred to this district, said
last night he had two private detectives
who had followed Mr. Parr into Mr..
Youngs's office. subpenaed. They were
taken before the United States Grand
Jury and later before Judge Chatheld,
who, Mr.. Youngs said, gave them a
severe lecture. The United States At
torney declared that he had good rea-
son TO believe that he also was being
dogged. II would be impossible to say.
he remarked. who employed these men,
but that they were especially put upon
the trail of Mr.. Parr was proved beyond
a doubt.
ACTIVITY OF DETECTIVES.
According TO a report private detectives
did not devote all their time 10 Mr.. Parr
in the strenuous days before the dock
raid and for months thereafter. An at
tempt was made, it was said, to blacken
the reputation of a high government
official Mr.. Parr said that a report he
saw made by one of the detectives rep
resented that the Acting Deputy Sur
veyor had spent parts of days where he
had never been. In speaking of this Mr..
Parr said that II was evident that the
detectives wished TO prove activity,
whether their reports told the truth or
not
Mr.. Youngs said yesterday afternoon
that he believed Mr.. PARIS account Of
his transfers.
II have never found Parr anything
. Il