Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-26

the price of meat by the grand
jury of Hudson county, New Jer-
sey, will be made next week by
Prosecutor Garven, Of Jersey City.
New York, Feb. 26.-'I see that, ac-
cording to dispatches from Chicago,
the packers there regard this prosecu-
tfon as a joke" said Prosecutor Gar
ven, of Hudson county. New Jersey, to-
day, alluding to the indictments Of the
alleged beef trust. "Well. they will find
out before we get thru that this is a
pretty serious matter, and the laugh
will be on the beef barons and not on
me-" continued Garven.
Garven declared there would be fur
ther evidence ready for submission to
the grand jury when it meets Wed
nesday next. The machinery of the
prosecutors office is working at full
speed to expedite the legal notifica-
tion Of the indicted men and corpora
tions, and to bring the individuals
named to New Jersey, for trial.
Garven Means Business.
Prosecutor Garven said today:
Il will wait a week or ten days be-
fore issuing any capiases and give
those under indictment chance to put
in voluntary appearance. If they fail
to come into the state and answer-the
charges within that time, will have
capiases issued and give them into the
hands of sheriffs, who will hunt up
the indicted individuals in Chicago or
wherever they are likely to be found.
Then the laws machinery will be put
in motion to bring them to New Jer-
sey."
The fact developed today that the
meat investigation and indictments
which followed yesterday had so far
cost the New Jersey county of Hudson,
where the proceedings have been con-
Quoted, the net sum of only 40 cents.
This is approximately the value of the
stationery used by the district attor-
ney's office and grand jury.
Men and Firms Indicted.
The Hudson county grand jury
which has worked overtime in the last
three weeks inquiring into the methods
Of cold storage concerns doing busi-
ness in Jersey City, Hoboken, and
Bayonne, handed up indictments for
conspiracy in the state supreme court
in Jersey City against six corporations
and twenty-one individual directors, as
follows:
National Packing Company. Thomas
E. Wilson, Armour & Co., Thomas j.
Connors, Morris & Co., Charles H
Swift, Hammond Packing Company, L.
H. Heyman, G. H. Hammond & Co.,
James E. Bathgate, Jr., j. Ogden Ar
mour, George H. Edwards, A. Watson
Armour, F. v. Cooper, Arthur Meeker,
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Nelson Morris, Louis F. Swift, Henry
P. Darlington, Edward F. Swift L. B.
Patterson. Edward Tilden, A. A. Fuller,
L. A. Carton, Swift & Co., F. A. Bowler.
The National Packing Company is a
Chicago and New Jersey concern, and
all the other corporations indicted are
Chicago concerns. Practically all Of the
indicted directors are Chicago men.
Cooper is the New Jersey manager
for Swift & Cos; Bathgate, Edwards,
Hartwell, Darlington and Fuller are
said to be officers and eastern agents
of the National Packing Company;
while the others named are either di-
rectors or officers or former directors
or officers of the National Packing
Company.
Fine, Prison, or Both.
The indictment is drawn under the
law of New Jersey, which provides up
on conviction a maximum penalty Of
three years in the penitentiary or a
$1,000 fine, or both. The offense charged
is extraditable, which means that prac-
tically the meat barons of this coun-
try must either successfully resist ex-
tradition or come to Jersey City for
trial.
The indictment charges that the de-
PENDANTS conspired together on March
1, 1908, to corner and limit the neces-
sary and reasonable supply of meats
and poultry for the consumption of the
people of Hudson county so as to pro-
duce an artificial scarcity and to in
crease the market prices of the food
stuffs.
The indictments were received by
County Judges Blair and Carly in the
absence of Supreme Court Justice
Francis J. Swayze, who had been ex-
pected to sit.
One Long Blanket True Bill.
Harry Lambert, clerk of the court,
asked If the grand jury had any In
dictments to present. and Foreman
James B. Throckm orton handed up one
long blanket true bill to Judge Blair.
Then the jurors returned to the
meeting room and continued their in
vestigation into cold storage affairs.
A few minutes after the presentme ment
was made, capias was issued by the
court for the arrest of J.. B. Patterson,
one of the indicted men. who, it was
said, was seen in the main corridor of
the court house shortly before the
grand Jury went upstairs to meet the
judges. A constable hurried down to
take Mr.. Patterson into custody, but he
had disappeared.
Carvonl Will Push Trials.
Prosecutor Pierre p. Garven, who