The sun., 1909-11-17
ANDERSON SAYS HE DID 1T.
Former sugar Trust Employee Claims
Reward for First Exposing Frauds.

Reward Tor First Exposing Frauds.
Jesse Watson and H. Francis Dyruff.
lawyers OF 90 Wall street, gave out a state
ment last night in behalf Of Edwin /.
Anderson Of 22il New York avenue,
Brooklyn. a client who they think is be-
ing deprived OF the credit for first giving
information to the Government leading
to the detection OF the sugar trust customs
frauds.
Mr.. Anderson has filed a claim with
the Treasury Department in Washin gton
for S5 per cent. OF the net proceeds Of
whatever moneys have been or may be
recovered by means of this information.
A duplicate OF the claim and OF the sup
porting affidavit has been filed at the
Custom House OF this port.
In his AFFIDAVIT Anderson says that he
was formerly in the employ Of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company as a super
intendent OF docks. He was discharged
in 1908, and his belief is that he was thought
to know too much. He says that there
after he was unable to get employment.
which he attributes to the supposed an
tagonism OF the sugar trust. He obtained
evidence. he says. that the sugar trust
was defrauding the Government out Of
Of the manipulation Of scales
Deciding to lay his information before
the Government he had Charles NJ. Daily.
a broker Of 20 Broadway. write to Secre-
tary Cortelyou on September 8, 1907.
That letter was answered on September
IL by acting Secretary OF the Treasury
Beekman Winthrop in the absence Of Mr.
Cortelyou. The answer directed that the
information be given to local authorities.
Anderson had Daily reply that he might
as well take the importers into his con-
fdenoe, and that If he had to use that
channel he preferred to remain silent
Acting Secretary Winthrop wrote again
on September 70. the affidavit continues.
and invited Anderson to come to Wash
ington and deal directly with the De-
partment. November was selected
Winthrop and James Gerry. chief Of the the
customs division, and explained to them
the system by which the sugar trust had
been defrauding the Government for ten
years.
Richard Parr. the special agent OF the
Government. in Mr.. Winthrop's office,
and an arrangement was made Tor Apder-
son to employ Richard Wahle in the work
Of detecting the frauds. Wahle was a
former employee of the American Sugar
opportunities to know of the dishonest
work Wahle was to report to Anderson,
Anderson and Parr. according 20 the
affidavit. had a conference in PARIS
Brooklyn ONCE in the presence of James
Brezinski, a special agent OF the Govern
ment. on November -, 1907. Parr, it Ia
declared, admitted that Anderson had
been the first to furnish information.
You will GoC che rs OF IS per cent. and
Wahle will ret place in the customs
service, it is alleged that Parr said.
This In the kind Of case President Roose-
welt likes. and you will get the moisty, as
you were the first who came with the in
formation
Anderson says he saw Parr and Bre
zinski every day up to November 90
1907, when the tsugar trust was detected
in fraud; and thereafter he saw them
nearly every day.
Anderson says that in the early part
OF January, 1908, he was followed by
detectives and that he and his family
were in constant apprehension that he
would be assaulted. In the early ma "A
Of February he became so alarmed that he
communicated with Federal District At
torney Youngs in Brooklyn. He was
followed TO Mr.. Youngs's ofice by a de-
tective. who was arrested at Mr.. Younrs's
direction by a deputy United States
marshal