The Detroit times., 1910-06-09
||LL Get FORTUNE
|DR LAYING BARE
SUGAR FRAUDS
lishard Parr, Who spurned Brides
( and Remained Faithful 70 Gcv-
crnment, Will Soon Be Rewarded
for Saving Millions.
Friends Think 100000 Would Not
Be Sufficient Amount To Repay
Him for Services.

81 NEW YORK, June 9.-The report
from Washington that Richard farr
q special agent of the customs uepai Z
4 ment. will receive only SlOO.OOo toi
x his work In unearthing the mammoth
sugar trust frauds has met with con
eiderablc resentment among Parr
\ friends here who declare that between
a 1000, 900 and S2,000.000 would be
nearer a fairer reward for Parr
The government. they say, recoV'
cred several million dollars as the re
suit OF PARIS expose. in addition 10
cverthrowing fraudulent system ana
4 thereby saving itself untold millions
I OF dollars in the years 10 come.
Parr will go 10 Washington nex'
week 10 talk the matter over with
Secreiary 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 10 be lib
era. PARIS friends declare 100000
would not show liberality Parr him
self positively declined TO discuss the
amount CT the reward. though he ex-
\ pressed great satisfaction over the
ruling OF Attorney-General Wicker
sham that he alone was entitled TO
; Whatever reward is 10 be paid
A former government official who
had much 10 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
retary OF the treasury. under Presi-
dent Roosevelt. he was notified in a
roundabout way by a man named Wal
ley, discharged checker at the Have
meyer ana -Eider docks in' Brooklyn.
that me. government was being de-
frauded by underweighing of sugar on
which duties were paid. No details OF
the1f-aud were laid before Cortelyou
Before Collector OF Customs Fowler.
OF the port OF New York, was suIh-
moned to Washington and ordered e.
get 40 work or the case Immediately
AT O conference between CortelyOn
and Fowler, Thomas Cross, a special
government agent. was ordered TO
New ork from Buffalo. With Fowler.
Cross examined all the government
Agents in this division and finally hit
upon Parr As the most likely Official
to Discover frauds IL they really exist.
ed. Parr was then given a free hand.
He discovered that holes were bored
IN The stanchions in each OF the scales
on the Hayemeyer and Elder dock and
that through this hole a spring was
20 manipulated as to make the scales
REGARD weight far lower than the
true weight OF the sugar placed upon
a. Oliver Splitter, the dock superii-
tendent, has admitted that Parr was
offered a large bribe 10 Forget" It,
with special agent Brzezinski, PAR
unearthed the entire frauds. On the
drst trial Brzezinskis story was 81
manifestly different from that OF
PARIS that Brzezinski was dismissed
from the service. Single-handed Parr
fought his way TO victory. forcing the
sugar trust TO pay back nearly 81, 4,0O0.-
900 In duties and resulting in the n.
etaliation OF true scales upon the
docks.
While the indicted sugar officials
were awaiting trial. Parr was offered
m additional bribc of 100000 10 dis
appear" Parr refused, this, as he had
refused others and assisted in the
prosecution.
His superiors say that Parr is
most efficient. capable. honest officer
anA there is rot one OF them who
does not nope he will be literally re-
warded