The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-09
INSIDE Story
Of SUGAR FRAUD
Government Agent Was Off
cred Large Brides to dis
appear and Forget 1t"
PARR MAY BE AWARDED
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
His Friends Declare This Would
Be Only Modest" in Con-
sideration of Work
Done.

NEW YORK, June s.-The report
from Washington that Richard Parr,
special agent OF the customs depart
ment. will receive only 100000 for
his work in unearthing the mammoth
sugar trust frauds has met with con-
siderable resentment among Parr' $
friends here. who declare that be-
tween 100000 and 100000
would be nearer a fairer reward for
parr.
The government, they say. recov-
cred several million dollars as the
result OF PARIS expose, in addition
TO overthrowing fraudulent system
and thereby saving itself untold mill
lions of dollars In the years to come.
Parr will go to Washington next
week to talk the matter over with
Secretary OF the Treasury MacNeagh.
who is finally to determine the
amount to be paid. It Is said there
Is no limit to the amount Parr can
be paid, and that Macveagh is In
eiined to be liberal. -----..
PARIS friends declare 100000
Eeald not show Iiherality.
parr himself positively declines 10
discuss the amount OF the reward.
though he expressed great satisfac-
ton over the ruling of Attorney Gen
srai wickersham that he alone was
entitled TO whatever reward II TO be
paid.
Inside Story.
A former government official who
had much to do with the work done
by Parr told the United Press to-
day the inside story OF PARIS dis
covery. the circumstances OF which
hitherto have been closely guarded.
Whom George b Cortsiyou was Sec
Rotary OF the trU1wury, ander PF@Ss-
dent Roosevelt. hs t&aS notified In q
roundabout way. by man named
Waliy. a discharged checker at the
Harefneyer and Elder docks. In
Brooklyn. that the government was
being defraeded by underweighing or
sugar on which duties were paid.
No details of the fraud were laid be-
fore Cortelyou.
Collector OF Customs Fowler, of the
port of New York, was summoned to
Washington and ordered to get 10
work on the case immediately. AT
a conference between Cortelyou and
Fowler. Thomas Cross. a special gov
eminent agent, Was ordered TO New
York from Buffalo. With Fowler.
Cross examined all the government
agents In this division and finally n
upon Parr as the most likely offici
to discover frauds If they really ex-
listed. Parr was then given free rein.
He discovered that holes had been
bored In the stanchions of each of the
scales on the Havemeyer and Elder
docks, and that through this hole a
spring was SO manipulated as to make
the scale record a weight far lower
than the true weight of the sugar
placed upon 1t.
offered Bribe 10 Forget.
oliver Splitter, the dock superin-
tendent, has admitted that Parr was
offered a large bride to forget" IT.
With Special Agent Rrzezinski. Parr
unearthed the entire frauds. on the
first trial Zrzexinskt's story was 50
manifestly different from that OF
PARIS that Zrzezinski was dismissed
from the service. Single-handed,
Parr fought his way to victory. fore
ing the Sugar Trust to pay back
nearly s4.00o.000 In duties. and re-
suiting in the installation OF true
scales upon the docks.
While the indicted sugar officials
were awaiting trial Parr was offered
an additional bride of 100000 to
disappear" Parr refused this. as
he had refused others. and assisted
in the prosecution.
His superiors say that Parr Is an
efficient capable. honest officer, and
there In not one of them who does not
hope he will be literally rewarded.