Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — SUGAR FRAUDS CASE COMMITTED TO JURY [ARTICLE]

SUGAR FRAUDS CASE COMMITTED TO JURY

Trust Attacked by Lawyers el Men Under Indictment

New York, Dec. 17. —Following the address of Henry L. Stimson, special prosecutor, the case of the government against James F. Bendernagel and others accused of being responsible for tbe underweighing of cargoes of sugar, was given to the jury today. K Lawyers for the defendants In summing up attacked the sugar trust and the system it allowed to exist on the docks in Williamsburg. Henry F. Cochrane contended that if any fraudulent device had been employed it probably was devised by Richard Whalley who assisted Richard Pan 1 in exposing dishonest weighing. Charles M. Beattie, counsel for Bendernagel, said It was ridiculous to bring Bendernagel Into the case as the man higher up. If the government wanted the men higher up why didn’t it go to the offices of the trust? “The trust,” said the lawyer,” appears to have made millions through these frauds, but these poor underlings do not seem to have profited much by them, and now the trust is assisting the government in prosecuting these poor men.”