Fortune for a Detective.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1910, Page 4

Fortune for a Detective.

A HUGE REWARD

The United .States Attorney-Gene-ral h-as decided that Mr Richard Parr, special agent of the United .States Treasury, 'is entitled 'to a big percentage of the total amount of money refunded by the Sugar Trust for .short-weights. Thiat organisation settled with the Treasury for £450,000, and of that amount if the past pracltiee of the Government be followed as regards porcenttage, Mr Parr, who exposed the frauds, will receive £140,000, the biggest reward on record for successful detective work. There are other claimants for reward, bult they .ire men who stepped in after. Mr Parr, at the risk of his life, ferreted out the information which was followed hy waol sentences for some offenders. Mr Parr's friends iingidt that he should receive 50 per cent, of the duties recovered by tihe Government, and such a percentage bins boe.ll occasionally allowed, but the more prevalent practice is a percentage _of 30 to 35 per cent. Mr Parr fu-rniished the information which led to the payment of back duties by other sugar concerns Itham the American Sugar Refining Company, and Ins friends do not hesitate to say that "it might have paid him bettter to have snid nothing."