The Washington herald., 1911-07-16

tested. We proved that rebates had
been paid and received. although the
accusation had been energetically and
angriIy denied. Relating was broken up
in the East And 20 Theodore Roosevelt
belongs the credit for all that was
done"
You renewed your attacks on the
sugar trust" / said, when you discov-
cred that 1t was underweighing sugar
and cheating the government out Of du-
ties that should have been paid into the
National Treasury"
Yes; and Mr.. Roosevelt opened the
way for the exposure Of the trust in that
instance and directed the fight that fol-
lowed. Richard Parr, an employe at the
custom-house in New York, as is pretty
we'll known, carried his suspicious TO
william Loeb, secretary to the Presdept
Loeb and Parr had been boys together in
Albany. 1t was believed for years that
the sugar trust was getting some ad-
vantage over the government Rumors
to that effect were whispered in the
customs service. Men said IL any one
ran into the trust that his teeth would
be broken off. Parr, desiring to get
ahead, talked with Loeb. and President
Roosevelt made Parr a special agent on
the sugar docks in Brooklyn.
How Parr Caught the Swind1era.
Now, recollect the date. On Novem-
Der. 20. 1907. Parr, suddenly appearing,
had two drafts, or small trucks of sugar,
reweighed after they had left the scales
on the docks. Parr acted so unexpected
I,y hot he ha taIy
by surprise. The difference between the
false weights and the true weights was
fourteen pounds on each of the tracks.
A ship Of raw sugar, you understand.
was being unloaded Under the tariff
law the sugar was subject to a tax at
certain rate per pound. Parr saw.
therefore, that the trust was secretly and
successfully cheating the government in
the matter of weights. At last the mys-
terry seemed to be clearing up. When
he examined the scales he found hole
in the wooden support at the side and
in the hole he found a wire which could
be manipulated by the weigher. Thus,
the exposure was complete.
THAT night Parr gaIloped to my office
with his prisoners. I was then engaged
on the case OF Charles w. Morse, the
banker, now serving a term Of fifteen
years in the Atlanta >penitentiary for
misapplying the money of other people
When 1 am on a trail Cbeing like
hound think OF little else / told Parr,
without caring much about it. that the
case, being in Brooklyn, belonged to
William NJ. Youngs, the United States
attorney for the Eastern district of New
York.
Prosecutions were started and Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Attorney General
Bonaparte instructed me to attend the
trials and acquaint myself with the facts.
1 broke into the cases later on the
ground that the. fraudulent weights at
Brooklyn. getting into the books OF the
custom-house in New York. properly came
within my Jurisdiction. Men and news
papers are saying to-day that the prose-
cution OF the trust lacked steam and
was undertaken unwIllingly. Such state
ments,'' Secretary Stinson declared rsis-
ing his voice. ''are maliclously untrue.
Immediately following PARIS discov-
cry, letter was received by the govern
ment from Henry o. Havemeyer. presl-
Dent Of the American Sugar Refining
Company. promising that the books Of
the trust would be open for oficial In