The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-02
Thomas, Parsons and 4 Dr.
rectOrs Indicted
CHARGE IS CONSPIRACY
For Trade Thomas and Ar
thur Bonner Are Wei Known in
New EngIand--Sugar Officials
Are All Very Prominent.

New York, July 2.--The federal grand
jury which has been investigating the
sugar trusts loan to Adolph Segal Of
Philadelphia, which was made che basis
Of the plan Of the trust to put out Of
commission Segal's Pennsylvania Sugar
Refining company, handed up indictments
Yesterday morning before Judge Hand
in the United States circuit court against
the American Sugar Refining company
al d corporation and against the follow
ing Individuals: Washington i. Thorn
as, president Of the trust; John r. Paf-
sons, its counsel, and the alter ego Of
its late president, Henry L. Havemeyer;
Arthur Bonner, John Mayer, George II.
Frazin, and c. Seneif, directors; Thomas
B. Harmed, who was counsel for Segai
in the preliminary negotiations connected
with the Sugar Trusts loan, and Gustav
Kissel, who acted as agent sor the sugar
trust in making tie loan after he bad
already undertaken to represent Segal IN
negotiating such a loan IS Segal re-
quired
Attached 10 1.-THE indictment and form
ing the basis Of one Of the counts is a
copy Of the resolutions passed at a
meeting OF directors Of the American SUI
eaf Refining company held Feb. l3, 1901
shiei NE secretary is instructed TO
communicate to the president the will
eas,u ID stockholders meeting
that the company assume entire respon.
sibility of what has occurred in the
Segal matter"
The resolution pledges the American
Refining company 70 defend, protect
and indemnify the president and lin
the event Of a suit and possible recovery
that it win either pay the same. or if
an appeal is taken. viii stay proceedings,
and if required, make payment"
The section Of the law under which the
indictments were found provides as pen.
alties fine OF not more than $1,000 or
Imprisonment for not more than one
year, or both, in the case Of the indi-
viduals and q fine OF not more than
$4,000 in the case OF a corporation.
The indictments followed a decision
by Attorney General Wickersham in
Washington Wednesday adverse to legal
contentious raised BY lawyers for the
sugar trust for John Il. Parsons and for
kissel at d conference with United States
District Attorney Wise on Monday.
These injunctions We're the last cards
which the trust and its officials could
play IN their fight to staye of indiet
ment, inasmuch as the facts in the case
were known and not open to question,
and the attorney general Of the present
administration had already demonstrated
that he was not subject 10 political, per-
sonal or financial influence. There were
three objections, all told: one based
on the contention that the statute Of
limitations had run against the acts con
stituting the Scgal loan transaction; the
second, that the decision Of the United
States court IN The knight case nearly
twenty years ago made prosecution i'm
possible on the state of facts here APP
parent; and the third, that the essential
documents required by the prosecution
having ben produced IN civil litigation bv
Parsons and Kissel could net be used
I'll evidence against them or against the
American Sugar Refining company since
Thomas and Parsons were officers Of that
corporation.
The indictments were drawn last Fri
day and ready 70 be handed up 70 the
sitting judge OF the United States cir
cult court. There remained only TO be
examined one or two minor witnesses
whose testimony was not required BY the
prosecution. having been produced IN
civil litigation by Parsons and Kissel,
could not be used in evidence against
them or against the American Sugar
Refining company, since Thomas and
Parsons were officers Of that corpora
tion.