The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-22
PLEADED GUILTY
TO CONSPIRACY
-Four Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Of
ficials Fined $4,000.
ESCAPED JAIL SENTENCE
REBATE CASES PUSHED TO A
CONCLUSION.

n HICAGO, Sept. 21.-Four officials of
the Schwarzschild & Sulzbereger
Packing company. OF Chicago
were fined an aggregate of S2oOOo by
Judge Humphrey in the United states
district court here today. The fines FOL
lowed a plea of guilty to indictments
charging conspiracy 10 accept railroad
rebates. The defendants were Samuel
We'll. of New York, vice president OF
the company; b. s. Cusey, traffic man
ager: Vance d. Skipworth and Chess
b. Todd. assistant traffic manager
Mr.. We'll. was fined $4,000, the other
three S. 600 each.
ious kinds bn,aex rdlu rdlu rdlu hrdl
Disgrace Made We'll Sick.
With the entering Of the pleas the
declaration was made that unless al
least one of the cases is Immediately
settled the life of Samuel Well, wee
president of the company and one OF
the defendants. is III jeopardy. He Is
said to be a nervous wreck and fears
were entertained for his life if he had
been allowed to continue under the
strain of a trial. The plea was enter
ed. il is declared, after a complete IN
Outstanding had been reached between
counsel for the defendants and Attor-
neN 6encTdi w imam IL %HD'NS'
Jail Sentence AVerted.
While i'm Chicago the attorney gener-
al was appraised of the condition OF
Vice President We'll and il Is sald
agreed to the entry of a plea or guiitg,
with the understanding that the Jan
prOvision of the law under when the
Indictment was returned should De
waived and merely a fine imposed. the
same concession was made IN the case
of the other three defendants.
conspired to Solicit Rebates.
| The four defendants were charged
with unlawfuIly combining and agree
| ing to solicit rebates for the SchWdrZs-
child & Sulzberger company from the
Michigan Central Railway company
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacilc'
| the Grand Trunk Western railroad, lhe
| Lehigh Valley Railroad company the
Boston & Maine company ana the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad company
| Charges were made that the defend
| ants censnired with each other in pre-
senting supposed claims for damages
which were in reality claims Tor re-
/ bates
Rebate RascaIs in Court.
The plea made today does not in any
way AFFECT the charge of interference
with government witnesses made III
nrevious indictment returned against
/ f,usev and other SchwarZschild & Sulz-
berger men. The four defendants were
| i'm the federal court building and APP
peared before Judge Humphrey IheS
! were accompanied by Attorney W els
senbach and Attorneys l. NJ Boyes0h
and J. J. Herrick
| The fines carried with them proVls-
| ion that the defendants be confined IN
/ iail until the fines were paid. ne
/ fines. however. were paid Immediately
/ Mr.. Max Sulzberger giving his cheek
| for the total a<Ount.s $4,000. Ihe
check. after being duly certified, was
accented as payment of the fines ana
the defendants then left the court
room. ,., l...s
District Attorney Morrison, discuss
| ing the case after adjournment oil
II am perfectly satisfied with the
matter as it stands
THE defendants came into court
pleaded guilty and the court showed
| 'eniency in his sentence. The tne Is
/ heavy. but the Imprisonment provision
1 is there, the most important part OF the
/ law. | think it was d very Iar con-
! SideTatlOn o. the matter. II Md5 PioN
! en- cOnclusively by the government that
! after the issuance of the injunction oy
! Judge Grosscup. the SchwarZschild d
! SuIzberger company withdrew from
the combination. They were independ-
emf. but in order to carry on their
| business in so strenuous a competition
/ against the other packers il seems II
! was necessary for them to accept re-
] bates. The results today only go TO
show that the government has now
! lodged an opening wedge into the ques-
ton of rebates We have found way
| to proceed and it seems the proper one.
It seems to me that the government Is
i'm a fair way of breaking up the entire
rebate evil in this country.
! From the books of the government IL
! is shown that to take evidence against
/ the four defendants and bring about
! their Indictment the government spent
/ SIC. O00 The cases against Armour a
| Co. and others were continued until
next Wednesday.