Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1908 — BIG SUGAR MEN ARE INDICTED [ARTICLE]

BIG SUGAR MEN ARE INDICTED

Government Said To Have Been Swindled of Millions by Manipulation of Scales. New York, Feb. 6. —On indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the United States government, Ernest VV. Gerbraeht, chief sugar expert of the American Sugar Refining company, and seven other employes of the sugar trust were arrested and taken before Judge Ghatfield in the circuit court, Brooklyn. The indictment of Gerbraeht is one of the results of the investigation of the February grand jury to learn who was responsible for the manipulation of the scales on the Williamsburg pier of the American Sugar Refining company, by which, it is alleged, the government has been defrauded out of millions of dollars in the last fifteen -years.-■' .——l..'.' ;