The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-25
President of American Sugar
Refining Company TO Take
the Stand.
SUBP0ENAED AS WITNESS
BY THE GOVERNMENT
Days Testimony in Heike Trial
Damaging TO the
-- Defense.

NEW YORK, May Washington
b Thomas, president OF the American
Sugar Refining company. has been sub.
poenaed by the government and will ap.
pear as witness at the trial of Charles
j. Heike. secretary-treasurer of the
company, charged with conspiracy to
defraud the government by underweigh-
ing sugar.
Thomas appeared in court with DR..
Samuel D. Hooper of Philadelphia, a
director of the company, but left hur-
riedly after he was Informed his pres
ence was not needed today. Just when
he will testify was not announced.
AS he left the federal building the
head of the sugar company said:
~ have Just been summoned here rs
witness-that is all / know. / pro
sumo I Will be called to the stand later
! really have no idea what the govern
ment wishes to find out from me. -
Sensation to Come.
The name of the late Henry o. Have
meyer, one-time head Of the company,
figured prominently in today's testl-
mony 1t was brought out on cross-ex-
animation by the defense in an attempt
to clear Heike. The witness was John
A. Thompson, a bookkeeper IN the com
pany's Wall street offices. He testified
that Heike knew nothing about weights
at the docks, but he could not give as
clean record for James w, Bender
pagel, former cashier and one of the
defendants.
Oliver Pizer, the convicted dock SUI
perintendent pardoned by President
Taft and now aiding the government III
the prosecutions, probably will be the
star witness tomorrow. He IS yet to
nuti
President Thomas and Prosecutor
Stimson had short conversation before
the opening of court, their talk giving
rise to the report that Mr.. Thomas had
been subpoenaed as witness
Evidence That Counts.
Whaley is n special treasury agent
who was with the investigators. Parr
and Brezinski, when the famous raid
on the sugar docks wns made in 1907,
and tho fraudulent weighing devices
were discovered. Whalley was on the
cross examined. He was employed for
time by the sugar company and under
| Spitzcr's direction, he said, used to
;ampcr with the scales BY "rolling the
ball. as be called it. He gave an H.
Iustrntion Of the process on the scales
| in the courtroom. twisting the cylIndrl-
| cal weight TO the left of the beam TO
decrease the wel9ht recorded. lie said
he never saw the steel spring until the
time of the government 8 raid.
James r. Kerrigan and William X
Mulhcarn, clerks in BenderuagIe' s office,
admitted they never had received in
structions to compare the government
weiphcrs' weights with those of the city
weighers. The last arc alleged to be
the actual weights on which the sugar
company paid for its purchases and the
Government figures the ones registered
by the fraudu lent scales and on which
tIe duty was based. Kerrigan said he
sent the government and city woigher S
returns to the Wall street offices OF the
| trust.
he said. The witness had no knowledge
| ~ any crooked device on the docks,
| George H Becker, n clerk in the Wall
| street Office under the Mr.. Leroy, to
H,hom splitter yesterday testified he had
| toId OF the frauds that were going on at
! tho williamsburg docks, WAS next on tho
| .,and Becker succeeded Leroy when the
latter dnd several years ago thus get
tinr charge OF the raw sugar books, He
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