New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
HE|kE'S LETTERS RISE
TO SURPRISE COUNSEL
Unaware Government Had Copies
of Sugar Secretary's Pri-
vate Correspondence.
nay OF TECHNICAL EVIDENCE
Even Court Puzzled at Times
Prosecution, 1t Is Expected,
viii End It's Case
To-day.

american Sugar Refining COMPANY on
,risf on q charge OF conspiracy to de-
srsud the government out Of customs
duties- with grim look heard copies Of
his letters read and technical tables OF
she great business analysed yesterday
4, the effort of the federal prosecutors
% fssten upon him a knowledge of the
c-irnes committed on the Havemeyer
rider docks. Not for an instant did
NJ relax his expression. His counsel
hsttled II have evidence excluded, hut
Iudze Martin. who for years had been
6 T7nited States attorney. blocked their
every objection
In the corridor outside ofsthe criminal
branch Of the United States Circuit
rourt where the trial is being held in
she Federal Building, there were rumors
~ sensations similar to the confession
# Oliver Splitter. but within game was
4zs.nr plaved TO which counsel for the
,ove-nnlent attached far more impor-
tsnce.
There we're reports that some of the
defendants would plead guilty and
+b-ev themselves on the mercy of the
,ov-- Splitter had been busy with his
Ii associates. as he had said he would
re There was a rl1Inor that g defend
urt in a position to expose the whole
s-o7 Of fraud would follow the Splitter
,1zrple. a story reaching to the utmost
,o,anes Of the business. It was also
= -b.+ the company was about to
drop more employees.
Other Confessions Reported.
-..-. have been other confessions as
-ba result Of Spitzer's pardon There
has been another reaching out for more
,e-idenoe. But the weavers Of the wen
Of rr,iit were too intensely interested IN
the threads they were trying TO gather
zho,It FTeike to give much of their time
80 ANYTHING in the way Of confirmation
~ denial. and the defence was too busy
irving to check the progress
lanes ". Beck. general counsel for the
American Sugar Refining Company, re-
sr-red from Europe in the morning ana
was MADE acquainted with the Splitter
confession. but especially with the evil
senos the government had obtained from
sr exsr1instion of the conpany's books
u,,,e he was abroad. II was said that
~- Recx will rot be called into the case
~ ptd Mr.. Heike One of his assistants
isrresent at the hearings always
In another part Of the building the
federal grand jury heard more witnesses
N the proceeding against the company
urder the Sherman antitrust act Be
fore United states Commissioner Shlelos
Js-oes q Brzezinski. former Treasury
szer-. arrested on charges of perjury in
having denied that Splitter had attempted
20 bribe him gave $4,000 bond for MS
hail He net Splitter in the corridor
enc Brzpzinski did not look at all friend
+ UPON the pardoned man whose con-
fsssion was responsible for the arrest
But nothing seemed TO count except the
game being played in the courtroom, with
Eeike's liberty as the stake.
Al the technical tables and chart as
complicated as any that played such an
important hut useless part in the Heinze
trial faded from the memory OF the spec
tators and others in the courtroom when
hatch Of Heike letters was introduced
ana read.
Significance OF Heike Letters
The prosecution believed that the let
1srs as well as the tables, showed knoWl-
edge Of the frauds by Heike and ernest
Cerbracht, the former superintendent
also on trial One to Frank G. Turner
the superintendent of the subsidiary COM
psny at South Boston. called attention TO
clsnges recommended in the melting &C
ceuEt of that refinery. and referring 10
differences in the production Of refined
from raw sugar said:
These differences are due TO two
rauses: First, the desire of the super
intendents TO make as good showing
Of their work as possible; second, 70 the
liberal weights and tares which we re-
oeive from the custom House, and
which. Of course. we do not undertake
70 correct
in letter 70 Mr.. Gerbracht. complain
ing q the destruction of weight books
Is hsrming an insurance claim. Heike
kaid:
AS there were no duties paid on these
sugars (of which the weights had been
-TsAlDA &C J.. lllefe cOulO uIAOti 1Ac NAA~NA4'
stances be any harm in showing the
Weights, as there could be no compari-
Scr with Custom House weights
az as much significance in the eyes Of
lae prosecution were books submitted
z J. r Montgomery, in charge of the
melting accounts in the Williamsburg
1ehnery- He got his figures from Otto
echlneiter, in the Wall street office. now
dangerously III, and there was a column
showing the original weight, and an
"tnfr column. in red ink, showing fig
mes which counsel for the government
oeelare are the losses in dutiable weight
suffered by the customs. Another col
ninn showed the value OF the red ink
Seights. These reports went to Heike
saas.
Destroying Papers of No Use.
ne technical evidence was so puz-
ING az times that the court had 10 ask
r an explanation. The melting report
N the Statement submitted the Gay be-
80 and considered yesterday had TO do
I'm the raw sugar received, its grade
p1slity value and weight. The refined
Heauct meant the market. de goocs
eler melting; the iryert or grape sugar
re remainder after refining. There was
never any puzzle about the weight df-