Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-26
I'LL TRUST Found
GUILTY BY JURY
CONVICTED AT FlNDLAY ON
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY
AGAINST TRADE.
DRAMATIC SCENES
MARK THE CLOSE
Standard Will File Motion for New
Trial-Penalty for offense Is Fine
of $50 to $500 or Imprisonment of
from Six to Twelve Months.

Findlay, O., Oct. 2O.-After deliber-
ating 80 hours the jury in the case
of the state of Ohio against the
Standard Oil company, of Ohio, re-
turned verdict of guilty" on the
charge of conspiracy against trade,
in violation of the Valentine antitrust
law. The verdict was rendered at
4:35 o'clock Friday morning, the jury
having announced it's readiness to re-
port exactly at four o'clock.
The judge and attorneys arrived
in half an hour, when the verdict was
rendered.
The penalty is a fine of from $50
to $4,000, which may be repeated for
each day of the offense, or imprison-
ment of from six to ~ months
viii File Motion for New Trial.
The Standard Oil company, of Ohio,
has given notice that it will file a
motion for a new trial. Under the
practices of the court the defendant
has three days to put this motion in
FORM
The next step will be for the court
to impose the penalty.
The defense will then take their
bill of exceptions to such rulings OF
Judge Baker as they have objected,
to the circuit court of the state. The
appeal from this court is to the SUI
preme court of the state, to which
tribunal there is no doubt the issue
will ultimately be decided.
To the state, the suit, the verdict
and the ultimate appeal is important
particularly because it intimates an
entirely new method of proceeding
against alleged trade lnonopolies-
that of information and affidavit, in.
stead of by grand jury indictment.
The verdict was rendered at 4:35
o'clock Friday morning, and resulted
from continuous elaboration by the
jury during 80 consecutive hours. The
trial occupied seven days preceding
this deliberation.
Dramatic Scene at the Close.
A touch of the dramatic marked
the two closing hours of the jurys
deliberations. Hymns were sung
during all but ten minutes of this
time. This ten minutes came at the
end, and was occupied by the re-
naming juror, who had stood out in
explaining his position and surren.
der to the majority There was not
the slightest levity about this hymnal
service. The jurors had then been
many hours without sleep. The songs
which were started shortly after two
o'clock in the morning, echoed at
first feebly through the spacious cour,
Importance Of Verdict.
When the case went to the jury at
$3.50 o'clock Wednesday night, the
hrst ballot of the jurors stood nine for
conviction and three for acquittal.
AS the result Of continuous DELHI.
erations to four o'clock Thursday
morning one Of the three for &C.
quittal joined the majority. AT
seven o'clock Thursday night one OF
the two remaining for acquittal went
over to the other side, and at four
o'clock Friday morning the last of
the three gave his assent to the
verdict of Guilty"
Case Against Rockefeller to Wait.
Findlay, O., Oct 2O.-Prosecutor
David stated to-day that he would
take no action in the case against
John D. Rockefeller until the supreme
court passes on the jurisdiction of
the Standard cases.
To Fight to Last Ditch.
New York, Oct. 2O-The legal de.
partment of the Standard Oil company
aas given out the following statement:
"Fhe verdict In the case at Findlay
against the Standard Oil company car
ries with it single fine of from $50
to $4,000, which is the maximum ac.
cording to the law under the informa-
ton on which the suit was brought.
The defendant lawyers in the case are
taking immediate steps for appeal,
which, before final adjudication, may
pass through three courts, namely,
court Of common pleas, the circuit
court and the supreme court of Ohio
Fhey feel confident of securing re.
yersal on manifold errors in the trial