Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-03-05
UNDER ARREST.
Onioinis and Directors OF tho whissry
Trust Indicted and Held In Heavy Bonds

OnicInls and Directors OF tho Whtsky
Trust Indicted and Held In Heavy Bonds
for Violating tho Antitrust Law.
CHICAGO, March 1. = Joseph b.
Greenhut, the president, and all the
officers of the whisky trust, or Cattle
Feeders and Distilling Company have
been indicted by the federal grand jury
at Boston for violation of the Sherman
antitrust law. The indictments were
returned on February IL, but
the news of them was not made
public until now. Warrants for
the arrest of the men indicted
were sent here to Chicago United
States Marshall Hitchcock's men have
gone to Peoria to serve the warrants
on the officers of the trust who re-
side there. The list of men against
whom indictments were returned, in
cludes:
Joseph r. Greenhut, of Peoria president OF
the trust; Herbert l. Terrell, of New York.
| vice president and director; William N. Ho-
| bart, OF Cincinnati, treasurer and director:
| Warren H. Corning, OF Cleveland o., direc-
tor; Julius e. French, Of Cleveland, o., direo-
tor; Lewis H. Greene, OF Cincinnati, q director;
| Nelson Morris, OF Chicago, director; George
]. Gibson, OF Chicago, ex-secretary and d;rec-
tor; Peter ]. Hennessey, OF Chicago secretary
| and director ...
|
officers of the trust residing in this dis
trict were issued on Saturday last by
United States Commissioner Hoyne.
The warrants issued were for the
arrest of President Greenhut, ex-
Secretary Gibson. Nelson Morris
and Peter j. Hennessey. Hem
nessey was arrested by United
States Marshal George Allen Monday
and officers are hunting for Nelson
, Morris and Mr. Gibson. Copies of the
indictments against the officers of the
trust are Low in the hands of the dis
trict attorneys in the respective dis
tricts where the indicted men live,
and all Of them are being put
under bonds to appear before tho
United States court at Boston for
trial at the next term of court. United
? States Marshal Charles went to Peoria
! Saturday night and arrested President
Greenhut on warrant issued by COM
: missioner Hoyne. Greenhut gave bail
in the Peoria court and was released.
1t was decided to gather all the
whisky men in at this time, because it
had become known that President
: Greenhut and several others were
: about to go to Europe. Mr.. Greenhut
was to have taken passage for England
March /.
Mr.. Hennessey has been released ON
$40, 900 bail Thomas Hutchinson, of
the Chicago Distilling Company, signed
the bonds.
/ The indictment states that the de-
PENDANTS operated the distilleries of
!, the Great Western Distilling Company.
u u Of the Peoria Distilling Company, Mon
N arch Distiliing Company, Of" Woolner r
. Bros. Distilling Company, Chicago Dis
tilling Company, Mill Creek Distilling
u Company, Maddox, Hobart G. Co.,
- !. Mound City Distilling Company and of
George R. Duckworth.
~ They also purchased, leased or rent
&c ed certain other distilleries in the Unit
"a ed States to the number of seventy es-
III tablishments, each of these concerns
at the time of purchase being
,s competing concerns. From that
Is date, August 1, up to the time
y of the finding of the indictment
!. they controlled the output of these
" distilleries and sold SO, 900, 900 gallons
Sc at prices fixed by them. This they did
ie to ''uniustly unlawfully and oppres
sively monopolize to the Distilline
a and Cattle Feeding Company aforesaid
ie the manufacture and sale of higf
% wines, alcohol. spirits, gins and whis
he kies"
An agreement made by the trust will
two of it's customers, Dexter Il. Mill
and Erastus c. Garfield, bound them tc
:. purchase goods from the trust the
agreement which held them beins
that the trust would give re
~ bates of two cents per each proc
gallon of spirits bought by them. /
-, similar agreement with John Joyce i
- also set out to the same effect. Th
-. prices charged, the indictment charges
~ were largely in excess of the usua
~, prices at which goods of the kind wer
~ sold previous to the organization G
~ ~ the trust The defendants, in so dc
is ing, did, it is alleged, unlawful
an and oppressively prevent and cour
'ra teract the effects of free competitio
~, on the price of said spirits and did III
ma lawfully exact and procure great sum
.s of money in said district frol
- ~ the said Mills and Garfield as c.
"a partners and from the said JoyC
=; and from divers other persons, cit
zens of said district to the jurors afor
uo said unknown; against the peace an
dignity of the United States and col
trary to the form of the statute of I'll
same in said case made and provided
CLEVELAND, O., March Warren
Corning and julius French the tw
cat directors of the whisky trust living
Cleveland, arrived home Monday frol
ay. the east. They were met at the trai
ion by United States deputy marsha
ca, who informed them that he held wa
tes rants tor their arrest They went
ish once before Judge Kicks of the Unite
ali States court and surrendered, givir
ow bail each in the sum of $4,000 for the
md appearance in Boston.
lad Denies nInine,s statement.
IN NEW YORK, March Mrs Neviu
Gu mother of the recently divorced wi