The Detroit times., 1910-06-09
WILL GET FORTUNE
FOR LAYING bare
SUGAR FRAUDS
Richard Parr, Who Spurned Dribeo'
and Remained Faithful 70 Gov
eminent, win Soon Be Rewarded
for Saving Millions.
Friends Think 100000 Would Not
Be Sufficient Amount To Repay
Him for Services.

NEW YORK, June 9.-The report
from Washington that Richard Parr,
special agent of the customs depart
ment. will receive only 100000 f0r
his work In unearthing the mammoth
sugar trust frauds has met with con-
siderable resentment among PARIS
friends here who declare that between
100000 and $2.O00.000 would be
nearer fairer reward for Parr.
The government. they say, recov-
cred several million dollars as the re-
suit of PARIS expose. In addition 70
overthrowing a fraudulent system and
thereby saving itself untold millions
OF dollars in the years to come.
Parr will go to Washington next
week to talk the matter over with
Secretary of the Treasury Macveagh,
who is finally to determine the amount
to be paid II is said there Is no limit
to the amount Parr can be paid and
that Macveagh is inclined to be lib
eral. PARIS friends declare 100000
would not show liberality. Parr him
self positively declined to discuss the
amount Of the reward, though he ex-
pressed great satisfaction over the
ruling OF Acknowledgement Wicker
sham that he alone was entitled to
whatever reward Is to be paid.
A former government official who
had much to do with the work done
by Parr told the United Press today
the inside story of PARIS discovery,
the circumstance of which hitherto
have been closely guarded
When George b. Cortelyou was sec
rafarv nj tho nd proo{-
dent Roosevelt. he was notified In q
roundabout way by a man named Wal
ley. discharged checker at the Have
meyer and Elder docks in Brooklyn,
that the government was being de-
frauded by underweighing of sugar on
which duties were paid. No details Of
the fraud we're laid before Corteiyou.
Before Collector Of Customs Fowler.
of the port of New York, was SUM-
moned to Washington and ordered tn
get 10 work OF the case Immediately.
At conference between CortelyUu
and Fowler, Thomas Cross, special
government agent, was ordered to
New York from Buffalo. With Fowler.
Cross examined all the government
agents in this division and finally hit
upon Parr as the most likely oficial
TO discover frauds II they really exist
ed. Parr was then given free hand.
He discovered that holes were bored
In the stanchions I'm each of the scales
on the Havemeyer and Elder dock and
that through this hole a spring was
SO manipulated as to make the scales
record q weight far lower than the
true weight of the sugar placed upon
It, Oliver Splitter, the dock superin-
tendent. has admitted that Parr was
offered a large bride 10 Forget" II.
With special agent Brzezinski, Parr
unearthed the entire frauds. On the
first trial Brzezinskfs story was Sd
manifestly different from that Of
PARIS that Brzezinski was dismissed
from the service. Single-handed Par-
fought his way TO victory, forcing the
sugar trust to pay back nearly $4,000
900 in duties and resulting in the in
stallation Of true scales upon the
docks.
While the indicted sugar officials
were awaiting trial, Parr was offered
an additional bride Of 100000 TO dis
appear" Parr refused. this, as he had
refused others and assisted in the
prosecution.
His superiors say that Parr is q
most efficient, capable, honest offcer
and there Is not one OF them who
does not hope he will bel literally re-
warded