Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-13
SPECIAL vEN1RE FOR INQUIRY
witnesses Summoned from New York
10 Denver, including Employees
ana All Glasses of Men In
the Business.


Jury. which has been investigating Chi
caEo packers. late today returned indict-
ments against ten high officials Of the
Swift. Armour and Morris concerns. There
are three indictments against each, charg-
ing combination, conspiracy and illegal
monopoly.
The men indicted are L. +. Swift, presi-
dent of Swift and Company Edward
Swift, vice president of Swift and Com
pany; Charles II. Swift, director Of Swift
and Company; Francis A. Fowler. director
OF Swift and Company; Edward Tilden,
president Of the National Packing Co; j.
ogden Armour, president of Armour & Co;
Arthur Meeker, general manager of Armour
q Co; Thomas ]. Connors, superintendent
Of Armour & Co.. Edward Morris. president
OF Morris & Co. and Louis IL. Heyman,
manager of Morris & Co.
The first Indictment In detail charges all
defendants with engaging in combination
in restraint of interstate trade in fresh
meats The second charges conspiracy.
The third charges the defendants with
monopolizing the trade in fresh meats by
unlawful means.
Were After individuals.
That the purpose OF the grand jury in
rather than the packing corporations. was
shown when Judge Kenesaw M. Lands
famous for the s2sOOO.OOO Standard Oil
fine. launched the investigation.
1T sometimes happens that person
about TO violate the law takes name
other than his own" said Judge Lands In
his charge to the jury
John Jones undertaking TO counterfit
gold dollars changes his name to John
smith. or the Metals Fabricsting Co.. and
under that name does the thing forbidden
by. law j 4.,s .st....
'If youfr investigation discloses such a
case. do not indict mere alias. but fol-
low the trail wherever II may lead until
YOU have identified and pointed out the
real leaders"
The investigation which has just ended
was the second started by Judge Lands
within a year. On January 20 he ordered
a grand jury inquiry, which on March 70
Indicted the National Packing company
and ten subsidiary concerns.
Attorneys for the packers filed demur-
rer 10 the indictments. on June 23. Judge
lands sustained the demurrer, killing the
governments case aaginst the packing com
nanies At the same time he issued an
order for a special grand jury venire of
seventy-five men for July A. The wit
nesses who were summoned included em-
ployes Of the Chicago companies, eastern
packers, small independents and New York
Wholesale and retail meat dealers ana pack
srs fro mas far west as Denver, Colo
A. T. Fuller vice president of the Ma
tional Packing company; c. c. Snow, secre-
tarry and treasurer. and Arthur Colby, as
sistant treasurer were among the wit
nesses and were said thus to have obtained
immunity.
Moses II. Joseph, secretary of the New
York Butchers Dressed Beef association
ras the most important witness early in
the investigation. He told. under protest
how the Chicago packers got control OF an
independent concern founded by the butch
ers for the purpose Of fighting the so
called trust Altogether more than 200 wit.
uesses, more than half of them from out
Of town. were examined.
The grand jury continued its work fol
about a month, when on August IL the
frat sensation was sprung. ThoI-1s G
Lee, manager of the dressed beef iart
ment of Armour & Co, was indicted fo
perjury. The grand jury also returned 1
sensational report charging Alfred II
Urion chief counsel for the company anC
president OF the Chicago Board of Edu
cation, and three Armour office employs
boks demanded by the inquisitorial body
The men appeared in court and after
hearing lasting several days Judge Landi
dismissed the charge against Urion. Fina
disposition OF the perjury case was Sc
for September ls.
In the Lee perjury Indictment IL wa
charged that weekly meetings. were he'll
in Chicago, at which the packers III
prices and decided how much bushes
shall be done by each company durin
the week.
The grand jury practically added its in
Quiry q week ago.
Since that time government attorney
have spent their time I'm conference a
witch indictments were prepared. The frs
federal grand jury investigation of tn
packers began March %. 1905. On July
1915, indictments weer returned against six
teen individuals and five corporations. o
December -. 1895. the only trial of tn
packers began This dragged along unit
July !, 1905, when Judge Humphreys CAV
his famous Immunity bath" to all individ
uals on trial. lie declared the defendant
had been compelled to furnish testimon
which resulted in their indictment and tina
the cases against them should be di,
missed.
In december, 1905, another federal gran
jury inquiry was begun This dragged !,
until April. 1903, when it Was dropped vi,
no Indictments and no reasons given