Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-03
WAR ON BEEF TRUST
Chicago Grand Jury Makes
 Wholesale Indictments.
FIVE GREAT PACKING FIRMS NAMED
!. ogden Armour, Louis F. Swift, Ed- ward Cudahy and Chief Omeials of Their Compa nies Under Ran,
 Charged With Conspiracy.

ward Cudahy and Chief OMeAals Of
 Their Compa nies Under Ran,
 Charged With Conspiracy.
 CHICAGO, July 3.-Twenty-two of ncials of the big packing companies and four corporations have been in iicted by the federal grand jury. True bills were voted at the morning ses- sion of the jury, and at o'clock in the afternoon the jurors filed into Judge Bethea's court, reported their findings and were dismissed with the thanks of the court.
 Five corporations and eighteen indi- viduals are named in the principal in- iictments, which charges conspiracy m restraint of trade and conspiracy to monopolize or attempt to monopolize any part-o such trade or commerce in violation of the Sherman antitrust law. Penalties for violations of either of these charges, which appear in differ .nt counts in the principal indictment, are fine not to exceed 5000 and inn orisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. The fine only is applicable to corpora tions.
 Originally the interstate commerce law provided punishment of both ine and imprisonment for such viola tions, but the Imprisonment provision was stricken out when the law was amended.
 i After a session extending intermit- tently over a period of three months the federal grand jury finished Its in vestigation into the packing industry. 1 It was generally known about the cor riders of the federal building early in 1 the day that the jury would vote in iictments against the packers. l The head officials of the packing com panies had heard the reports and an hcipated the grand jury's action by sending their attorneys to the office of the United States district attorney to make arrangements for bonds. l It is understood that the arrange ment with the federal attorneys is that the men named in the indictments who ire not at present out of the city on their annual acations will appear at 1 he United States district court rooms today prepared to give bonds for their :, appearance when the cases come up in court
 i The five corporations indicted are ] Armour X Co.,, Armour Packing com pany, Kansas City: Swift & Co.,. Fair bank Canning company. formerly Nel- son Morris X Co.,, and the Cudahy Packing company.
 Among the individuals indicted are included J. Ogden Armour. president of Armour & Co.,; Patrick A. Valen- tine, treasurer of Armour X Co.; Ar thur Meeker. general manager of Ar mour X Co.: Thomas J. Connors. gen sral superintendent of Armour X Co.,: Samuel A. McRoberts, assistant treas \ urer of Armour X Co.,: Charles ". Ar \ mour. president of the Armour Pack Ing company; Louis F. Swift, president
 of Swift & Co: Edward F. Swift. vice president of Swift X Co.; Charles H. Swift, director of Swift & Co.,: Law
 renee A. Carton. treasurer of Swift X Co.,: D. Edwin Hartwell. secretary of Swift & Co.,: Albert H. veeder. attor-
 ney for Swift & Co.: Robert C. Me
 Manus, general counsel for Swift X Co.,: Arthur F. Evans. attorney for Swift
 & Co.,: Edward Morris. vice president of Fairbank Canning company: Ira N.
 Morris. secretary of Fairbank Canning
 company: Edward Cudahy. vice presi-
 lent and general manager Cudahy
 Packing company: Beth s. Cusey. traf-
 fc manager Schwarzschild & Sulzberg
 CT; Vance F.. Skipworth. assistant traf-
 nc manager Schwarzschild & Sulzberg-
 sr: Charles F. Todd. assistant traffic
 manager Schwarzschild & Sulzberger;
 Samuel Well. vice president Schwarz-
 schild & Sulzberger.