Drawing To A Close

The testimony in the case of the Electric Sugar Reflning Co. vs. Olive E. Frieiul is now all in andC. K.Whitman openeil the tegumento yesterday afternooh. Tlie case will be given to the jury tuis afternoon and as it has been befbre the court and jury for ten long days Uuy will be gíaá to see tlie end. The case of the defense improved èonsiderably as the various witnesses were placed on tlie stand. A. J. Sawver in opening made the claim that there is a secret process, not of reflnyig raw sngar but of taTting the mpuritiea out of inferior grades of sugar. ■jv HuL-teail, the Qrsf witness for tlie defepse, swore that he was hired I and about the Örstwork he vhich he. contained ■ inachinerv, but wliich had sugar in it. 11. wondered at this and asked Howard and Cotterill if Mrs. Friend kuew abeut this. Howard said, "This is none of Mrs. Friendrs business. This is Cotterill'a business. He hires yoti and will pay you,"and Cotterill added, "You do as Howard says and I'lltakecare of you." A demonstraron was held. The witness reeeived $90 for eleven days work and then went home to Milan, but went back in response to a letter from Cotterill. Ile aided in severa! demonstrations tliis time. He swore th.it Cotteiill went into the various rooms of the factory and knew well that the raw sugar was not used, at one time telling witness that he must take in more raw sugar as they were going to run out more of the white sugar than he had taken in raw, and "they would think something was wrong." Mrs. Friend wasan excellent witness on the stand and told a straight-forward story which the other side f ailed to shake upon cross examination. She explained what she knew about the sugar business with one exception, that she claiming as her secret. She swore that at the first demonstrations her husband used inferior white sugar and that Cotterill brought the line sugar himself . Cotterill drew all the contracts that were signed and knew that they did not claim to refine raw sugar as they had refused to sign several contracts with "raw sugar" in. Relating to the various contracts and receipts signed by her, she said that she knew very little about them but signed them at the request of her husliainl. She identified the various ' tracts which had been signed and many drafts oí contracta which Cotterill had drawn that she and lier husband had refused to sign. Prof-. CBihart and Dr. Vaughan were sworn by the plaintifï in rebuttal to straighten out somé pointe in regard to the effect of electricity on sugar. Mr. Whitman closed nis argument yesterday afternoon. It was a strong plea of liis side of the case and had considerable effect.