The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-22
TRAGEDIES
IN WAKE Of
.ESUGAR TRUST
Death, Suicide and Disgrace
Involve Members Of The Great
Monopoly and Their Relatives
(ay Leased Wire)

New York, Mar. 2i.-Gustave r. Kls
sci. Wall street broker and for years
a secret financial agent Of the sugar
trust. lies desperately i'll in the Pres
byterian hospital The attending
physicians despair OF his life.
Kisse Is under Indictment for com.
spring with officers and directors OF
the sugar trust to restrain interstate
commerce In the interest OF the big
sugar monopoly. The validity of the
indictments has been sustained by
the United States supreme court.
Kissel's death would add another
tragedy to the long list that has black
ened The history of the sugar trust
ats career for a generation has been
characterized by financial, political
and social scandals, sudden and mys-
terious deaths and suicide alike OF the
victims and heneficiaries OF its greed
The path II has travelled to success Is
marked by wrecked fortunes, blasted
lives and tombstones whose epitaphs
mercifully do not claim the truth.
Long List of Tragedies.
Within the last five years seven
men prominently identified with two
sets of scandals have died suddenly
or committed suicide. The seven are
Henry o. Havemeyer died sudden
ly.
H. X. Pomeroy, dead.
w. +. Osborne, dead
Michael CORDOBA. dead.
Nathan Gullif5vd, dead
Frank Hipple, suicide.
George f Graham, suicide.
TO this list maj be added the name
of Clara Bloodgood, whose suicide at
Baltimore two years ago brought the
shadow of tragedy that has hovered
over the family since the sugar trusts
aggressive methods have scandalized
national legislation, ruthlessly stran-
gled competition and swindled the
| government out of millions
Clara Bloodgood's first husband was
a scion of the house of Havemeyer,
William f., Jr. son OF a former may
or of New York She divorced him
after a few stormy years of married
| life and married Jack Bloodgood,
whose name she bore when she went
on the stage
Havemcyer's Sudden Death
The death OF Henry o. Hayemeyer
the most material and d0mineering
head the sugar trust has ever had
followed only few days after the
discovery by Richard Parr, deputy
surveyor Of the port of New York, Of
the artful scheme by which for years
the TRUST had been Systematically
cheating the government out of rev
enues by meaus OF "rigged' scales
PARIS startling discovery was made
the last Of November, 1907 Have
meyer died suddenly and unexpected
" at Merriyale, his magnificent Long
lslam1 estate, December ). No an
nouncement of his Illness had beer
made, because, as il was stated al
the time he was seized violently with
acute indigestion and died almost
before medical relief could reach hin
Parr testified he was offered 100000
rot to report his discovery to the goy
ernment
Nine Other Tragedies.
Nine other tragic occurrences have
visited the Havemeyer family besides
those OF Henry o. Havemeyer an,
Clara B,oodgood they were:
George Hayemeyer, lalled in re
tinery
William f., Hayemeyer, divorced.
Theodore A. Eavemeyer killed by
disappointment
MRS. Henry 0. Havemeyer, the frs
| divorced, died of broken heart.
Mrs. Henry Hayemeyer, will bitter
ly contested.
Henry Havemeyer cher SOM dieo
under surgeons knife.
Charles F. Havemeyer, ("Charley')
supposed suicide.
4 Mrs Nathan Havemeyer Mayer
died from pistol shot.