The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-03-29
CROCERS TRIAL
SOON TO BEGIN
DATE AGREED UPON BY ATTOR-
NEYs FOR BEGINNING OF
FIRST SESSION.
Letters Written sy }. A. Van EI?ose
and o.her Correspondence VIII Be
jntroduced-cla5au5h to Give Tes.
timory.

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testimony to be offered in the case
CT tie United States against the
Southern Wholesale Growers associa-
ton will be taken next Friday ty
Special Examiner Robert n. Bell.
The case will be called in the federal
building, and from the date set until
several months have elapsed the gov
ernment will undertake to prove the
existence CT the Southern Wholesale
Grocefs' association is menace TO
the trade and that the organization
has operated and now operates n
restraint of trade and in violation OF
the Interstate commerce laws
AT a conference held yesterday re-
K. Harrison, OF the department of
justice, and District Attorney o. d.
Street, the date was fixed for next
Thursday, which was agreeable to
General Luke E. Wright, representing
the association. However. General
Wright telephoned yesterday from
Memphis that Carruthers Ewing, one
OF the attorneys for the association,
could not be here Thursday. so Fri
day was agreed upon.
Mr. Ewing, General Wright and
probably private stenogTapher of
Mr.. Ewing will reach here next Fri
day morning to open what is ex.
pected to re one OF the most inter-
esting cases ever heard in the federal
! court in Alabama.
Assistant Attorney General Harri-
son. who has been here for several
days shaping up the details of oae
case, left last night for Cincinnati.
! where he will be engaged for q few
! days, and will return to Birmingham
by next Friday. All the attorneys and
others connected with the case have
feen consulted as to the date set for
the hearing, and any untoWard de-
velopments are not expected to pre-
vent the calling OF the case on the
original date.
The announcement was made yes
terday that a signed agreement had
been entered into by the attorneys
| for both sides in the case,' agreeing
to the appointment of the court Of
! ficers, and that this would he re-
corded in the office of the clerk with
in the next few days The agree
ment was purely perfunctory and does
not change or affect the existing line
up as agreed to in the past.
1t was given out yesterday that the
first testimony to he offered by the
government will be in documents.
| This evidence is expected to require
two days, after which it will be an
nounced wha witnesses will be eX-
amined first by the government. The
written testimony to he introduced
will probably include about 100 let
| ters written by former President Van
| Hoose, a trunk filled with CORE
| spondence tending to show how the
association operated in restraint of
trade, a huge mass of other docll-
ments, including the celebrated '}lun
| book" the alleged unfair list and
various other kinds of written testi.
mony
After this is completed it is expect
ed that the government will examine
| Hinton G. Clabaugh, special agent for
| the department of justice. who has
been working against the association
| for many months.
The announcement was made yes
terday by attorneys for the govern
ment that the first session to be held
here would not last longer than three
days. This time is expected to be
| sufficient for the formal written tes-
timony to be introduced.