The Harrison times., 1906-07-21
LEGAL CRIMINAL
Jail For Ice Trust Men.

Jail For Ice Trust Men.
For violation of the Ohio antitrust
law five ice dealers of Toledo last
week received the maximum penalty
under the statutes 5000 fine
and one year in the workhouse. The
sentence, which was imposed by Judge
Kinkade. was to begin Immediately,
but the judge promised that if the
money eXtOrted from the people was
returned to them and if the members
of the combine discontinued their lille
gal operations he would listen to a
plea that part of the imprisonment be
remitted. This degree of clemency
was due to the fact that the convicted
men had admitted their guilt after the
first case, that of Joseph \. Miller,
manager of the Toledo Ice and Coal
company, had resulted in a conviction
The convicted men were at once taken
to jail and later transferred to the
wOrkhOuSe. There was no chance for
appeal to a higher court. The cases
were conducted by Prosecutor Wac
heimer, who was elected last fall on
an Independent ticket. Proceedings
were undertaken at once to oust the
offending companies from their char
terS and to bring other local COM
bines to book
When Attorney Brown, for one of the
defendants, charged that the lawyers
of Toledo constituted q trust because
they agreed upon the minimum and
maximum of fees, and that the news
papers We're n trust by establishing
q of O1N
heimer replied that if evidence to this
effect We're given him he would indict
every one of them and convict them.
Since the conviction Of the managers
the local price of ice, which had gone
up 40 to 100 per cent, has been dropped
from so to 40 per cent. After spend
ing three nights in the county jail the
sentence of two of the men, Beard and
Lennon, was reduced one-half be-
cause they had reduced the price of ice
almost to last years schedule. The
others were expecting it on the same
ground
Illegal Trust Can't Collect.
The unusual contention that a trust
has no standing in court and cannot
collect for goods sold to q voluntary
customer was sustained by Judge Ryan
III the United States circuit court at st.
Louis. This contention was made by
Joseph r. Walsh, a plumber, who ad-
m1tted that he had bought voluntarily
$40 worth of goods from the Cahill-
Swift Manufacturing company. Walsh
alleged that this company was a trust
and that he did not have to pay any
more than he would have to pay a
gambling debt The courts decision
was in his favor
Postal Fraud Cases Fail.
Former State Senator Green and W.
D. Doremus of Washington were
acquitted by a Washington jury on
the charge of bribery and conspiracy
to defraud the government i'll connec-
ton with the sale of canceling ma
chimes in the pOstotiice department.
This was Green's second trial, and an
other indictment is still pending.
Standard Pensions Rivals.
Lawrence NicoIai, formerly proprie-
tor of the National Oil company, IN
Washington. testified before the ref
cree in bankruptcy in that city that the
Standard Oil company paid him an an
nual pension of *, 900 from 1899
January, 1905, for refraining from sell
ing oil and gasoline In the District of
Columbia He says he went into bank
ruptcy when the Standard stopped pay
ing him the pension because it had