Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
MAN HIGHER UP"
TO BE REVEALED
IN SUGAR CASE
GOVERNMENT HAS IMPORTANT EVIL
DENCE AGAINST AMERICAN RE
FINERS OFFICIALS.
INDICTMENT EXPECTED SOON.
New York Sun Devotes Entire First
Page to Charge That $3o,0oO,000
Has Been Stolen

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Evidence
which is confidently expected to reveal
the man higher up in the sugar weigh
ing frauds unearthed during the term of
Henry l.. Stimson as United States dis
trict attorney, has been placed in pos
session of the government, it was au-
thoritadyely stated today, and is being
used as the basis of d federal indictment
soon to be filed against one of the Off
Gals of the American Sugar Refining
company.
Since surrendering the duties of Unit
ed States district attorney, Mr.. Stinson,
acting as special United States attor-
ney general, has had in hand the work
of building up the governments case
against the custom house weighers and
the employees Of the American Sugar Re
lining company who are charged with
having conspired together to defruud the
United States ont of 100000 of sugar
duties The inquiry is now approaching
a climax.
The new evidence was furnished by
one of the implicated government
weighers.
$so,ooo,ooo Is Stolen,
The Sun this morning in an article
covering the entire first page and a col
umn and Il half on the second page. de-
clares the sugar trust has stolen, $780,
100000 from the United States. The
Introduction. which follows, covers brief
ly the main points of the detailed story:
The sugar trust has stolen boldly and
enormously from the United States treas
ury for at least twenty years. 1t stole
with the assistance of officials employed by
the United States. 1t was nursed and pro-
tected in its stealing by powerful politi
claus.
The direct evidence of the sugar trusts
crimes has lain in the New York custom
house since the stealing began. Practically
every payment of duty on sugar made by
robbery-the true weight and the false.
Those who knew that the sugar trust
was a thief and who sought for legal
proof in the custom house records were
George II. Earle, Jr offered to lay bare
the Sugar Trusts full iniquity to President
Roosevelt and Attorney General Bonaparte.
Mr.. Earle rebuffed and left in complete
encouragement For one year after that
the Sugar Trust continued to steal.
The facts show that the sugar trust could
out the cognizance of treasury officials and
the patronage of politicians.
The same cargoes were weighed and I'M
derweighed The trust paid freight on the
actual weight II paid duties on the under
weight 1t stole from 5 to 10 per cent. of
the duty on every cargo.
Blackmail Is Charged.
The trust tried to blackmail the carriers
of cargoes by pretended evapora tons of
sugar. 1t weakened VIXEN the carriers
threatened to tell the truth. 1t succeeded
in part of its blackman because the car
riers feared they would be driven out of
business.
The trusts power was such that it Sc
cured a special rate of estimating duties.
This enabled it to juggle figures in the
New York custom house so that it appar-
emily got small refunds, while in reality it
got large repayments
SINNERS of the world knew
of this robbery Carriers knew it. Weigh
ers knew it. Officials within the custom
house itself must have known it. The
sugar trust sflenced revelations.