The sun., 1910-06-03
TESTS, LIKE WEIGHTS, UNTRUE
GERBRICHT WOULD Nor ADMIT
TBAT THEr WERE FALSE.

mony OF Ernest ". Gerbrauht the super
intendent Of the Williamsburg refinery
in the sugar fraud trial in the United
States Circuit Court
0erbracht sWOre up aud down in his
Cross-examinatiOn that he knew nothing
OF the false weights on the docks. lie
claring that that al belonged 70 splitter
but he did admit knowing about the sugar
tests. lie refused tn characterize thess
tests a. false. He preferred 70 describe
them a. not being true tests
The amount which the sugar trust
paid to the sugar merchants was deter
mined not alone by the weight OF the
sugar but on its quality. a. fixed by thu
pOlariscope test The sugar was sup
posed 70 have been subjected 10 a 30.
called standard test a, the refinery and
the bills were paid in accordance with
the results
There was some surprise when Mr.
StimsOn while cross examining Ger
braoht suddenly asked him Il he hAdn' I
said that n. o. HaVemeyer had directed
him TO falsify tests OF sugar az the refin-
cry Gerbracht At hrst said that Mr..
HAvemeyer had told him no such thing.
but finally said MIR Havemeyer told me
! TO keep the tests low
Well said Mr.. stimson. 1T seems TO
be only q difference in veTbiage-
Mr.. Stimson wanted TO know II this
order Of Mr. HavemeysF's didn't amount
N direction to affect the price paid to
the merchants from whom the sugar was
bought. but Gerbracht said It referred
10 the coSt Of refining sugar Then Mr.
Stimson got him 20 admit that this was
practically the same thing and that keep
ing low the test meant paying less 20 the
merchants for the sugar
Didn't YOU make the tests lower than
ih-ir true arire?- he was asked by Mr..
Stimson
Yea
-Didn't Mr. Hsvemeysr tel YOU to do
so?-
Yes
why did Mr. HAvsmeyer want the
sugar prices c,t2-
+ don't know ! heard Mr. Donner say
that II was the way the old man used the
club over outside rctineriee
Gerbracht admitted that the lower taata
had affected the business of other refn.
cries. II came Out that the sugar was
tested not only at the refinery. but there
was also a test made at the Wall street
once. and IN some cases word would come
over from the Wall street ofiics 70 make
the test lower This was on the refined
l.
sugar would be miXed In, apparently 20 |
lower the grade Gerbracht kept on M |
sisting 10 the very end that making the |
test lower than the true test was not |
iaIsifying
One OF the Jurors asked him who had 4
ordered the tests in the refinery but /
GerbraCht said that he didn't know Ne
said that be wasn't responsible and that
somebody else must have given the order
10 the testing room.
But Mr. havemeyer told you to make
hem lower. didn't he?' asked Juror No : 1
Yes
And they were made lover then.
weren't thsyP- i
hslieva 40
FuFthsr along ~ hrs cruss-eKamInation
he Government brought out that Ger
Dracht had not gone down To examine
lie scales after the Government raid.
although he expected n make a report to
tT Havemeyer about II
I vas too hJlsy with my refining was
ierbTAchta explanation.
Your belief IN the innocence of these
men was founded solely on their asser-
iony-
YES
In reply n a question then from Judge d
Martin GerbFacht said that the wages
hat he paid SpitgeT and hA men after
heir indictment came Out ~ his own =
,ocket He denied fatty that he had told s
iennessy. one " the men. that the COM q
ANY would pay them :
Why wouIdn't I pay themy' said Ger
'raoht They have small children and 7
wanted 20 keep their families together '
You paid these men even when con :
ictlon showed them guilty. =
-Yea
And they might have confessed
On the contrary. | told them again
nd again 20 come 20 you, Mr.. Stimson,
nd u they had anything 20 confess 70 B
III you. Although splitter testified !,
hat Gerbracht used 10 come 70 his garage
nd leave the money for him and his men 9
n bic desk there where he would find q
aiterward. GerbrAoht insisted that hs u
ad handed the money opsnly 10 Splitter q
pitser. hs said. had told him hs would .
, all night when his garage began 20 pay. X
nd Il was then. Gerbracht said, that he
egan 90 pay Splitter sS5 week. which n
= kept up all the time splitter was in h
tlanta. although Splitter now says that y
his wife got the money she never told I
i'm about II. b
just before he left the stand Il dsssl. o
ped that GeTbracht Immediately upon
aving the sugar trust last year had "
ade a contract with the ArbuckIes a.
v five years At a salary of 90. COO a year "
. got 90. 700 from the sugar trust
Oerbrachts counsel called several "a
illnesses 70 testify that the technical G,
leets and chart put in by the Govern q
ent experts were inaccurate. Some Of z,
ess Witnesses, Who made up the tech h,
cal sheets in the refinery which are N
iAsing. said that they had never seen real n
ests showing the refinery AZ turning II
Il 3.7i per cent. over ita intake a. the a.
eets made up by the Government
owed. The highest they knew of was VI
little over per cent. Il Alao appeared n,
at the Governments expert had made n,
mistake in not including in his oalcu- L
tons the stock In process. Henry 81
lsseli, the chief clerk of the Sprecsels \,
hnery In Philadelphia. one Of these wit a
aees. swors that this would make a \,
fsrence IN monthlV statsmsnia, though :,
the year he admitted II might average
After this testimony the Government \
4 In a chart showing the corrections H.
ade 70 conform with this, and Il turned
& that tWenty-six changes required n
a bssn In favor Of the 0overnmsnt,
owing q higher surplus of pFoduct
lils only tWenty-three we're the other II
tO the sheets for 0eFbraoht was Arthur y
f3aFhvanhf him nafbhaw who vaa -