Havemeyer On Trial

Washington, May 25.- The trial of H. O. Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Reflning company, for refusing to answer the questions of the senate sugar investigating committee in the spring of 1894, began in criminal court No. 1 at the city hall Tuesday morning. Elverton R. Chapman, the first of the five contumacious witnesses, is now serving a thirty-day señtence in the District jail. John E. Searles, secretary of the frugar trust, and E. J. Edwards and Jchn S. Shrlver. r.ewspaper men, will be tried probably in the order named. Havemeyer and Searles were indicted Oct. 1, 1894. Larffe Crowd in Attendance, There was a very large crowd in attendance Tuesday morning to Witness the unusual spectacle cf a millionaire on trial. Among them v,'ere many distinguished personages, including Senators Gray, Lodge, Lindsay and Davis and Congressman Richardson. Judge Bradley presided. District Attorney Davis conducted. the case on behalf cf the United States. The defendant was represented by a brilliant array oL counsel, including Nathaniel AVilson of this city, John G. Johnson of Philadelphia, and John E. Parson of New York. Little trouble was experienced in obtaining a jury and in less than half an hour after the court convened District Attorney Davis lened the case with his statement to ,he jury.