Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-01-12
SUGAR TRUST
CASE PAPERS
Stolen From Office Of United
States District Attorney Wise
GNE IS FROM WICkERSHAM

Investigator Reilly of Interstate Com
merce Commission Is Locked Up
Publication In Magazine Caused Re-
turn of Observation-Disclosures Man
ager and Editor Testify Before
Grand Jury as to Price They Paid
New York, Jan. 10.-Thomas P
Reilly, special investigator for the
interstate commerce commission. was
arrested here charged with the theft
of letter from George B. Wicker
sham, United States attorney gener-
al, to Henry A. Wise, United States
district attorney, from Mr.. Wise's Of
flee in the New York federal build
ing.
The letter subsequently appeared III
a magazine and it's having appeared in
print had resulted in the return of an
indictment by the federal grand jury.
Other indictments are expected
Iii addition to the Wickersham let
ter there were also distracted from
the Office of the district attorneys Of
fee two letters from c. B. Heike,
secretary of the American Sugar Re-
filming company, to John E. Parsons,
counsel for the company, and the
minutes of the directors of the COM
pany for the meeting at the house of
the late Theodore Havemeyer.
A copy of the Wickersham letter
had been taken for publication. Other
letters had also been copied, for the
originals were recovered in the office
file, but the minutes of the sugar
company's directorate have apparent
ly disappeared.
Reilly lives in Nutley, n. J. He
was arrested as he stepped from
ferryboat upon New York soil.
Reilly was protege of Henry L.
Stimson, now special counsel for the
government in its prosecution of the
sugar cases. 1t was On information
furnished by Reilly to Stimson that
the government prosecuted with sue
cess several railroad and transit COM
panies for giving rebates on sugar
law. The railroads were all heavily
! fined.
George Won Utassey, business man
ager Of the magazine, and Perrigon
MAXWELL, managing editor, have both
testified before the grand jury as to
the price they paid, but this informa-
ton has not yet been made public
Attorney General Wickerham's let
ter, which was dated June 27, 1909,
as it appeared in the magazine, fol-
lows:
MY Dear Wise: Senator Root has
sent the proof of petition signed by
Bowers, Milburn & Guthrie in sup
port of their contention that the stat
ute of limitations has run in favor of
Messrs. Parsons, Kissel and Harmed .
It the only overt acts done to carry
| out the objects of the unlawful con-
brief, should think they were insult
tclent to save the bar of the statute
"A strong effort will be made to-
morrow to persuade the president to
interfere in some way to prevent the
indictments, but aside from that nc
indictments should be returned
against any one if there is no rea-
sonable grounds to believe they can
be sustained-if, for instance, the Of
lenses charged are clearly barred by
the statute. | need hardly say this tc
you.
What I want to impress upon you
is that if you have any reasonable
doubt in the matter you either have
the grand jury ask the court for in
struction, or, if that is not feasible
that you advise the department q
the specific charges on which you rely
to save the statute before actually
having the indictments brought in
You may telephone either to me or tt
Mr.. Ellis, if | should be out of the
department when you call, on this
point.