The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-26
CASE AGAINST TRUST
LEADS TO CEMETERY
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American Sugar Refining company,
who with five subordinates is charged
with conspiracy to defraud the gov
eminent by underweighing sugar. He
repeated he had made his confession,
not with hope of pardon but TO ease his
conscience and added after his convic-
ton, his attorneys, now appearing for
several of the defendants, had urged
him to tell all he knew.
ImpIicate Dead Man.
What did you say when advised to
confess?' asked Clarence Lexow for the
defense
Il said the only confession I can
make will carry me into a cemetery and
Mr. Stimson (the government prOsecu-
tori does not want that"
You are referring to Henry o. Hav-
emeyer? asked the lawyer
Yes, 1 am answered Splitter.
This closed the court incident, but
Splitter talked more freely after leaving
the stand. He said he had met H. ..
Havemeyer two or three times and En-
erintendent, another of the defendants,
had made his reports direct to Mr.. Hav-
emeyer. The frauds, he insisted had be-
gun before his time, although he
worked on the docks 20 years. He adj
mitted the steel springs used to manip-
ulate the scales on the docks were his
invention.
why did you not tell the truth in the
11rSI placer ne was asked.
Every time 1 look in a mirror, 1 see
a damn fool" was the answer. L was
a fool not to do it, but 1 was ashamed
to let anyone know l did these things
My credit was good; I could get any
thing and | did not want people to.
know I was fool enough to do these
things for nothing. I got nothing out
of it.
Sugar Trust InvuInernbIe-
Another reason why I committed
perjury was because 1 thought nothing
could happen to the sugar trust We all
thought the trust was so strong the
government could do nothing with it,
Aside from Spitzer's confession, the
government attaches most Importance
to the testimony given today by Miss
Violet C. Mertens, a stenographer en-
ployed by the sugar company. She said
she made three copies of the sO-called
technical statements concerning sugar
weights which have disappeared, and
one copy went to Heike and another to
Gebracht.
The government has eight or ten wit
nesses who, it is said will confirm her
statement and attempt to prove Heike
received these statements They will be
put on the stand tomorrow and Mr..
Stimson will then rest the prosecution.
He expects TO close his case by noon.
The first witness called today was
John H. Thompson, a bookkeeper in the
Wall street offices of the sugar com
panty. luCiuDoOu JSSlcIQdg repeatedly
testified that it was James F. Bender
nageI the refinery cashier, one Of .he
defendants with Heike, who told him
on one occasion that the cessation Of
the weight discrepancies on sugar car
goes was accounted for by the fact
that the government was keeping a
watch on the docks Today Thompson
asked leave to correct this testimony.
ut was Splitter who told me the
docks were being watched. not Bender
nagel," said Thompson.
The witness also denied calling Ger
bracht, the refinery superintendent, on
the telephone regarding sugar weights.
He corrected his testimony in other de-
tails, mostly of a minor nature.
Expert Facts About Sugar.
Theodore L. Keppler head of the
Sugar trusts refinery in south Boston,
testified as an expert 10 sugar max
ing processes and was led to state that