The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

Officials Of the American Sugar
 Refining Co.,, known as the Sugar
 Trust. indicted on conspiracy
 charge:
 w. B. Thomas, president; Arthur
 Dome, Charles Seneff, John Mayer.
 George H. Frazer and John B. Par
 sons. directors.
 Thomas B. Harmed, attorney for
 Adolph Sega1 for whom the trust
 negotiated the loan which resulted
 in the closing of the Pennsylvania Sugar Company's plant. Gustave
 E.. Kissell. the New York broker,
 who acted as agent for the trust in
 making the loan.
 New York, July IA blanket fndict- ment in fourteen counts, charging the American Sugar Refining Company, its officers and directors and certain agents, with conspiring to restrain the trade in raw and refined sugar, was returned to Federal Judge Hand to- day by the Grand Jury.
 The indictment charges that the de- fendants conspired to prevent the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company from competing with the trust and ac- complished that purpose through a loan of s1.25O, 900 to Adolph segal which was secured by 26,000 shares of the stock of the Pennsylvania Company giving the Trust a voting control of the concern.
 The indictment is the result of an fn- vestigation by the Grand Jury extend ing over many weeks brought about by the settlement of 8 suit of the Pennsyl- vania Company against the Trust for $30, ,0Q0, ,00O triple damages, for SIG, ,00O, 900. The opening paragraph of the indict- ment. which is the most voluminous returned by the New York Federal rx<>krx E<x~vkI r. that the American Sugar Refining Company controls about 90 per cent of the trade and commerce in raw and re- fined sugar in the United States and is engaged in trade and commerce within the meaning of the Sherman Act under which the indictment is found.
 Then follows the statement, that the Pennsylvania Sugar Renf1ning Com pany was organized six years prior to the finding Of the indietmsnt and 2 time. After setting forth that the Pennsylvania Company equipped a plant in Philadelphia to engage in the business of refining and marketing sugar, at cost of $2.o00, GOO, the indict- ment charges:
 ''The American Sugar Refining Com pany and the individuals here indi- cated with it were engaged in a cor rupt and unlawful conspiracy, that is:
 "A conspiracy unreaSOnaDly to re- strain and eliminate free competition and to prevent all competition with the defendant corporation by the said Sugar Refining Company to the very great injury and detriment, and morally of the people of the United States and this by and through the unfair. deceitful, unlawful and corrupt means of the said cor poration defendant and the fndividu- als indicted with it."
 The indictment then goes on to show that Segal was the treasurer Of the Champion Construction Company which controlled 260O0 shares of stock, a ma iority in the Pennsylvania concern; that Segal borrowed from Gustave E. Kissell, as agent for an undisclosed lender, $1, ,250, GOO, giving as security therefor the. 26.OOo shares of Pennsyl- vania stock; that Kissell had no req son to suppose that the undisclosed lender desired anything more than the payment of interest on and the pay ment of the amount loaned, or had any motive for preventing the Penn sylvania Refining Company from car rying oh it's business; that Adolph Sega1 at that time as the defendant