The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-07
Gen. Wickersham Catches Ii
Firms and 80 individuals
In His Campaign Against the
Trusts and Combines.
CONTROL SIS PER CENT
Of the COuntry's Output of
Enamel IrOnWare.
Representing a Value of About
$1O,OOO,OOO a Year.

Detroit, Mich, Dec. THE antitrust
campaign of Attorney General Wicker
sham shifted to Detroit this week with
the result that indictments have been
returned by the federal grand jury
against 16 firms and 80 individuals al
legged to have secured control of 50 per
cent of the annual output of enamel
ironware, bath tubs, sinks, lavatories,
etc, in the United States.
The criminal proceedings grew out
of a civil suit to dissolve the alleged
combination, begun by the government
in the federal court at Baltimore, hear
ings being held at Chicago, Pittsburg
and New York within the last 40 days.
The evidence adduced was presented
to the grand jury by Edwin P. Gros-
venor, special assistant to the attorney
general, United States District Attor-
ney Frank H. Watson, of Detroit, and
Joseph Darling. special agent of the de-
partment of Justice.
1t is charged that as the result of a
10 days meeting at Mount Clemens,
Mich. last April, a fund of $1,000 was
subscribed to set in motion a plan that
resulted in giving the defendants con-
troll of 16 manufacturers and nearly 400
jobbers, representing an output of ap-
proximately $4,000, 900 a year.
Both the civil suit started at Balti-
more and the criminal proceedings be-
gun here have been instituted under the
sherman antitrust law.
The defendant firms in the criminal
proceedings are:
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
company, Pittsburg, Pa; A. Weiskit-
tel & Sons company, Baltimore; the
Barnes Manufacturing company, Mans
field, o.; the Cahill Iron works. Chat
tanooga, Tenn; Colwen Lead company
New York city; the Hayward com
pany, Warren. o.; the Humphreys Man
Ifacturing company, Mansfield, O..
kerner Manufacturing company, Pitts
burg, Pa: the ]. L. Mott Iron works
New York city; McVay & Walker
Braddock, Pa; the McCrum- Howell
company, New York city; the Nation
al Sanitary Manufacturing company
Salem, o.; Union Sanitary Manufac
turing company, Noblesville. Ind; L
Wolff Manufacturing company Chi
cago, ILL.,; Wheeling, w. Va; United
States Sanitary Manufacturing com
pany, Pittsburg, Pa.
The Individual Defendants
The individual defendants are:
Theodore A Ahrens, Francis ]. Tor
rance. E. L. Dawes and w. A. Mylel
respectively president, first and secon
vice presidents, and treasurer of tn
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing com
pany.
c. NJ. vogele and T. R. Barne:
president and secretary of the Barne
Manufacturing company
Frank H. Caldwell and ]. j. Ma
honey. president and vice president c
the Cahill Iron Works
Jesse T. Duryea and Burt o. Tilder
president and secretary of the Colwe
Lead company.
w. G. Winfield and A. G. Ware
president and vice president of tn
Hayward company.
S. NJ. Ford and Reid Carrente
president and secretary of the Hum
phreys Manufacturing company.
]. A Frauenheim, president an
treasurer of the Kerner MANUFACTURER
company.
Jordan L. Mott and Max Goebe
president and secretary of the j. ]
Mott Iron Works
Thomas Walker and Alexander
Walker, president and director of Nc
Way & Walker
Lloyd c. McCrum ard Howard
Gates, president and secretary of NJ
Crum- Howell company.
Frank c.. Bordan and G. w. Davi
president and secretary of the Nations
Sanitary Manufacturing company.
/. c. Huesman and E V. Brigham
president and secretary of the Unto
Sanitary Manufacturing company
Charles +. Arrott and A. H. Gin
ir, president and secretary Of tn