Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-07-26
WIRE TRUST is
SPLIT BY PLEA
J. w. Marsh and w. A. Con-
ner Two of the Men
Fined.
81 OUT OF SO CHANGE
Accept Sentence Without
Trial --0thers Are Deter
mined to- Fight the Case.

Joseph w Marsh and William A.
ground Cable Company, are among
the wire trust" men who withdrew
their plea of mot guilty" and accept
ed sentence without trial before
Judge Archibald in the United States
District Court in New York yester-
day. There were thirty-seven Of the
eighty-three indicted who changed
their plea. The Judge imposed fines
of from $1,000 to S1,700 and costs
in each case, an aggregate Of S42,-
600 for unlawful conspiracy to re-
strain interstate trade. More than
$4,000 in costs will have to be paid
BY the. defendants, however, bringing
the total amount to be paid well
over $4,000. fhe. plea has torn
the wire trust into TIVE camps, thirty t5
others indicted having decided to
fight and sixteen more being unde-
cided.
The complete list OF defendants
fined is as follows:
S170O-F. W. Roebling.
s1500-Frank ]. Newberry, JOS
eph w. Marsh, William A. Conner,
Philip H. Smith.
S1400-Charles ]. Marsh, Frank
N. Phillips, Charles R. Remington.
$1200-Theodore F. Ryan, John
c. Bridgeman, Henry H. Ashley.
Show. T. Fields, Alfred F.
Moore, James H. Mason, Alfred A.
Cowles, Russell A. Cowles, Thomas
Wallace, Louis Anschutz, Joseph G.
Belden, Edward L. Frisbie, Jr.,
n rl NTrr
A, NJ. Dickinson, Karl Roebling,
Antoine Bournonville, Charles A.
Morss.
s1O00-Newell B. Parsons, James
A. Doughty, George B. North, Robert
w. Sieberling, Robert E. Lucas, R.
Eccleston Gallagher, William H. Hall,
Jr.. Ralph Watrous, George L.
Bowen, Everett Morss, Frank NJ
Potter, Jr.
In pronouncing sentence, Judge
Archibald said:
This is what you might call a
trade offense. 1t is an offense which
by the act of congress is against the
interest of the business world. 1t
seems to me l am not going out of
the way when I say that Just what
was meant by this law has remained
In considerable uncertainty up to
this time We now know exactly or
very nearly what it means, and from
this time on there will be no excuse,
but / feel justified in looking upon
what has occurred In the past in this
light and therefore I certainly re-
gard this as calling for nothing ex-
cept proper vindication of the law
by fine"
In the case of most of the thirty
seven appearing before Judge Arch
bald the nolo contendere was entered
to supplant the original plea Of not
guilty already made For a few the
nOlo contendere was the initial plea.
District Attorney Wise has heard
from the lawyers representing several
other indicted wire men that they, too,
will come into court tomorrow and en-
ter the plea of nolo contendere.
Lead 1ncased Rubber Gable associa-
ton, Fine Magnet Wire association.
Rubber Covered Wire association, Wire
Rope association, Weatherproof and
Magnet Wire association. Underground
Power Cable association, Telephone
luDl6 dSSOCIdllOu, f1OTSeSDO6 Mduu1dC-
turers' association and Bare Copper
Wire association. Though several who
paid were listed under scattering In
dictments as representatives of the
Bare Copper Wire association, VIII
liam B. Palmer the president Of the
American Steel and Wire company,
whose name headed the list under the
association and who was indicted sew
eral times, was not one of those ts
appear.
Ferdinand W. Roebling of John A.
Roebling's Sons, who was indicted as
a member Of each of the nine pooling
associations except the Horseshoe
Manufacturers, topped the list Of fine
payers with S1,700.
That there had been an agreement
upon pleas among the defendants was
indicated as soon as Francis RaWle, a
Philadelphia lawyer, representing the
Roeblings. withdrew the plea Of not
guilty against his clients and entered
nolo contendere.
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