The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27
JERSEY JUSTICE
A SERIOUS TH|NG
Prosecutor Prepares 10 Show
Packers That 1t Is Not 10 Be
Laughed At
JAIL is IN R BADNESS
Authorities Ready to Exact Elk.
IRENE Penalties From In
dictcd NIillionaircs. :
Especial to The rimes-Dispa,ch. !


New York. February 26.-Unless the
minutes of the meetings of the direc-
tors of the National Packing Company
aud other essential records are pro-
daced before the grand jury of Hud-
son county next Tuesday the New Jcr-
sey authorities will apply for an order
dissolvinG the corporation and taking
away its charter.
Further, unless the indicted directors
appear IN person to plead to the in
dictments within ten days, capiases
will be Issued and the directors will
be arrested wherever found. The au-
thorities are prepared to go even TO
the length of putting the indicted mil
lionaires in the Jersey City Jail, If nee
essary.
The action with regard to the books
and recordas Will be taken under the
New Jersey corporation act of 1896
This provides that stock transfer books
and records of annual meetings must
be kept at the home Offices of corpora
tons The minutes OF the directors
meetings may be kept anywhere.
May Order Dissolution.
y grand jury subpoena applies only
in the state, but if records outside the
state are desired, the chancellor or
any Supreme Court justice has power.
under the act, to issue an order COM
polling their production. Disobedience
may be followed by an order of dissolu.
ton.
Already notices have been sent 10
tho home offices of the indicted corpo-
rations TO have their counsel appear
and plead to the indictments. One of
the indicted men. James Il. Bathgatc,
.Ir, has signifed his Willingness to APP
iy,n rlo
gate is a director and Eastern agent
of one OF the subsidiary concerns of the
National Packing Company.
The packing forces held a council OF
war to-day at their New York head
quarters. This was learned throush
the visit 10 those offices of Richard b.
Lindabury, of Elizabeth, counsel for
the Prudential Life Insurance Com.
pany, who has been retained by the
packers.
Mr.. Harmon is the lawyer who had
a hand in the Chicago railroad merger,
and Mr.. Mathewson is counsel for the
Consolidated Gas Company.
The evidence by Which the ndict-
mcnts were found was furnished by
the employees of the corporations one
after another they admitted that prices
were fixed in Chicago and sent here.
each concern was limited and each was
allowed to sell only stated amount.
The Investigation of the cold storage
plants in Jersey City i S Still going on.
A number of samples OF poultry have
been seized from different plants, and
these are being analysed carefully. Tho
results will be presented TO tho grand
Jury next week, when the case against
the cold storage men and the beef
trust on the charge OF conspiracy to
injuro the pubic health is presented,
It's Not n Joke.
',rhc law Of the State OF New Jersey
is not n Joke" said Assistant Prosecutor
of the Peace James L. Clarke to- day
ut has not tho name OF being used for
what some eminent persons at the Chi
cago bar call grandstund purposes.
Tho beef trust prosecutionis thoroughly
in earnest. IT is not based on strained
construction OF the law or on possibl,
faulty special legislation.n
Mr.. Clarke was asked If tho inyestl.
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