Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-28
PATENT OFFICE FRAUD SUBMARINES USELESS
Three Officials Arrested For Con-
 spring to Cheat Uncle Sam.
VAST INTERESTS INVOLVED.

| oCaHodI hevoiVes Around inventor
 Valued at More Than $5,o00, ,00o-As
 sistant Examiner, Lawyer and ar
 Inventor Accused.
 Washington, Feb. 2S.-Three arrests nere brought to light scandal in tht patent office which has been under in vestigation since early in February and which revolves around an invention valued at more than $5,00O,0O0.
 The parties arrested are Ned W. Bar ton, third assistant examiner of the patent office; Henry W. Everding, g patent attorney of Philadelphia, and John A. Heany, an inventor of York Pa. They had been indicted by the United States grand jury for conspir. acy to defraud the government and fol destroying public records. The indict ment charges that the three men with an intent to steal and destroy" carried 1 away from the patent office certain let ters, specifications and amendments re. lating to patents and unlawfully and willfully destroyed them. The investi- gation was made upon information that as result of conspiracy John H. Heany had been given patent on an invention for manufacturing filaments and electrodes for electric incandescent l lamps.
 Records Destroyed. The facts disclosed by the investiga- ton were of such character that they were presented to the grand jury. It is alleged that, through connivance with Ned W. Barton, Heany and Barton outrivaled more than twenty of the largest electrical concerns in the coun- try striving to get the same patent All of these concerns had filed applications for patent, but from time to time Barton, it is charged, would see the specifications and employ whatever he desired for perfecting Heany's inven- ton.
 To be successful in this plan it was necessary to destroy certain records and file substitutes therefor.
 Secretary Garfield after a conference with Commissioner Moore called upon District Attorney Baker last Friday, and the latter immediately presented the case to the grand jury. Subpoenas were issued directing Barton, Heany and Everding to appear before the grand jury, and the indictments were returned before Justice Stafford in the criminal court, and bench warrants were at once issued for the arrest of the accused men.
 Held In Heavy Bail.
 Under some pretext the three men had been kept in the courthouse, and Deputy Marshals Stutler, Hawkins and Reid served the warrants immediately. Assistant District Attorney Jesse c. Adkins and Hugh Taggart, who have worked up the case for the govern ment, consulted Justice Stafford, who fixed bail for the defendants at $10,000.
 Barton, who lives with his young wife and three-year-old child at 435 Eleventh street, northeast, was much broken in spirit. The other two men did not view their predicament serious ly. All of them said that they cared not to make any statement other than the fact that their innocence of the charges would be proved.
 The indictments were brought under section 5403 of the revised statutes. They set forth that on Sept. 2, 1907, there was on file an application by Heany for a patent oh an invention for manufacturing filaments and cleo trodes for electric incandescent and arc lamps, These were filed in the office on Jan. 19. 1905. With the application were other papers and specifications and letter dated March 2s, 1905. ad- dressed to Heany bearing the stamped signature of Commissioner of Patents Allen. Acting Examiner Cowles of d. vision 37, of which Barton was exam finer, and Assistant Examiner Day. An to the application was filed in July, 1905. Papers in the case were destroyed. according to the indictment.