Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1909 — SUGAR TRUST MEN ON TRIAL [ARTICLE]

SUGAR TRUST MEN ON TRIAL

Two Officials and Four Weighers In Court—Eleven Jurors Chosen. New York, Nov. 30. —The trial of B. F. Bendernagel, Oliver Spitzer and four of the five sugar trust weighers who are under indictment, has begun here before Judge Martin of Vermont. When court adjourned eleven jurors had been secured. All of the defendants were in courf except J. M. Voelker, who Is under treatment at a hospital. In addition to Bendernagd aqd Spitzer there were Thomas Keboe, P. J. Hennessey, John R. Coyle and Fdward A. Boyle. Bendernagel is the former cashier of the Williamsburg Sugar Refining company’s plant, and Spitzer is the former dock superintendent of the same concern. ,