Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-07-07
BEEF PACKERS
ARE INDICTED
CHARGED WITH THE VIOLA
TION OF ANTITRUST LAW.
TWENTY ONE MEN ACCUSED
Armours, Morrises, Swifts and Others
are Accused of Conspiracy to Re-
strain Trade. Illegal Relating Also
Among the Charges.

Chicago. After an investigation
which has lasted something over three
months and during which more than
100 witnesses were examined, the fed
eral grand jury have handed in their
report. Seventeen men prominent in
the packing industries of the country
were indicted for violation of the
Sherman antitrust law and four off
cials of the Echwarzchild and Sulz-
burger Company were indicted for al
legged illegal rebating to the railroads.
Besides these individual indictments:
bills were voted against five corpora
tions, Armour & Co., Swift & Co.
Nelson Morris & Co, Cudahy Pack
ing Company and the Fairbanks Can
ming Company.
The men indicted for alleged con-
spiracy in restraint of trade, which
constitutes violation Of the Sherman
act, are:
J. Ogden Armour, president of Ar
mour & Co.
Charles Armour, of Armour & Co.
Arthur Meeker, general manager fol
Armour & Co.
7. j. Connors, director for Armour
& Co.
F. A. Valentine, treasurer of Ar
mour & Co.
Samuel McRoberts, assistant treas
nrer Of Armour & Co.
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift
q Co.
Charles F. Swift, Of Swift & Co.
Lawrence A. Castor, treasurer Of
Swift & Co.
Arthur F. Evans, attorney fol
Swift & Co.
R. C. McManus, attorney for Swift
& Company.
A. H. Veeder, general counsel fol
Swift &~Co.
Edward Cudahy, of Cudahy & Co
D. c. Hartwell, secretary of Swift
& Co.
edwin F. Swift, vice-president Of
Swift & Company
Edward Moffisy secretary Of Nelson
Morris & Co.
Ira W. Morris, of Nelson Morris &
Co.
The four employees Of Schwarzchild
& Sulzburger, who were indicted fol
alleged rebating with the railroads
are all connected with the traffic de
partment Of the corporation. Thei
names are:
Samuel We'll.
B. S. Cusey.
C. E. Todd.
V. d. Skipworth.
The indictments voted for alleged
violation of the antitrust law wer,
identical in each instance. The indict
ments contained each eight counts
which were spread over sixty-thre'
typewriter pages.
The first and second counts of thu
indictments pertained only to bee
sold in domestic trade. The ninth ant
tenth counts relate to beef sold in for
eign trade. The third count contain,
"a charge of conspiracy in restraint o.
trade and commerce among the state.
and with foreign nations in fresl
dried, smoked, cured, canned ant
picked meats and in certain by-pro
duets of the packing industries, viz
sausage, easing, sausage containers
oleo stock, stearine and oils and alst
in butter, eggs and poultry.
This count charges that the trade
which the defendants were carrying
on in the above named commoditie.
were to be restrained in several ways
Competition in the buying of cat
tie at the stock yards in differen
cities was to be prevented and de-
stroyed by the defendants who requir-
ed their purchasing agents to refrair
from bidding against each other.
Second competition as to the sale Of
the. above commodities in foreign an6
domestic market was to be prevented
and destroyed by the defendants fix
ing non-competitive and unreason
able prices for such commodities and
requiring their representatives in the
different markets to fix prices by
agreement from day to day according
to what the market could stand.
Third, the supply of the above com
modities was to be curtailed and res
tricted whenever necessary to main
tain the prices so fixed.
Fourth, the United States was di
vided into territories between the de
PENDANTS and each was to keep it
own territory without interfereice il
the others.
Fifth, there was a division as tt
Wells match; as a matter of course,