The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-26

 PLEAD GUILTY
INDICTED MEMBERS OF WIRE TRUST WITHDRAW FORMER
 PLEAS IN COURT.
Judge Archibald Imposes Fines of $1,ooo to $i,7oo In Each of the Cases, With Costs.

New York, July 25.-The federal government today scored heavily in
 It's effort to break up the alleged |fwire trust" when 97 of the S3 men indicted June 29, witLtrew the plea |of not guilty and accepted sentence without trial on pleas of ''nolo con- |tendre."
 Judge Archibald, in the United
 States District court, imposes fines of from $1.00o to $l,7OO and costs in each case.
 The action came in the face of viz |orous argument against the accept lance in this court, he said, and he protested against a precedent. The court, however, accepted the |p.eas and remarked:
 This is what you might call a |trade offense. It is an offense which |by the act of congress is against the interest of the business world. It |seems to me I am not going out of
 the way when 1 say that just what
 was meant by this law has remained in considerable uncertainty up to this time. We now know exactly, or livery nearly what 1t means, and from this time on there will be no excuse but I feel justified in looking upon what has occurred in this light and, therefore, I certainly regard this as Icalling for nothing except proper yindication of the law by a fine.'' Sentence to pay the costs and a lfine of $f,000 in each case was then |pronouncSd, with the provision that where defendant had been fined In one case the fine should be $1OO for each additional case.
 The complete list of defendants fined is:
 $l,700, F. w. Roebling. $1.500. Frank J. Newberry, Josep.l
 w. Marsh. William A. Conner, Phil- lip H. Smith.
 $l,4o0, Theodore F. Ryan, John C.. IBfidgman. Henry Fl. Ashley. SLIGO, w. F.. Fields, Alfred F.
 Moore, James H. Mason, Alfred A. ICowles, Russell A. Cowles, Thomas
 Wallace, Louis Anschutz. Joseph C.. IBelden, Edward l.. Frisbie Jr., Thos B. Kent, c. Edward Murray, A. M {.
 M. Dickinson, Karl Roebling. An toine Bournville, Charles A. Moore $1,000, Newell B. Parsons, James A. Doughty. George B. North, Rob- Iert M. Sieberting, Robert E. Lucas,
 Eccleston Gallagher. William H. Hall Ralph Watrous, George l.. Bowen, Everett Morse. Frank M. Potter. Jr. The nine associations in which one Tor more of the indicted men are members are:
 The Telephone Cable Association, the Bare Copper Association, tho
 Weather Proof and Magnet Fire As- lsociation. Fine Magnet Wire Asso-
 ciation. Horseshoe Manufacturers
 Association. Underground Power As- |sociation, Rubber Covered Wire As Isociation. Lead Encased Rubber 1n- sulated Cable Association, and the Wire Rope Manufacturers.
 It is alleged that the 83 indicted members of these associations enter led into an unlawful combination and Conspiracy to restrain trade and thas continuously from June i, 1908 to lsome later date were knowingly and |wilfully engaged in this combination. |the purpose of which was to fix arr |bitrarily and -competive prices both for the purchase of the raw ma- |terial and for the sale of their man.
 ufacture goods |"
 William P. Palmer, president of the American Steel and Wire Com. pany; Herbert L., Satterlee son-in- law of J. P. Morgan; Prank J. Could and Charles F. Brooier, re. publican national eomfn.fteeman from Connecticut, are among the forty-six other alleged members of the associa tions who have pleaded not guilty to k r~s..