The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-03
Judge Goff Names May
Is as Date for Anti
Trust Trial.
PRITCHARD AND
ROSE DESIGNATED
Department. Of Justice Fighting
Hard to Break Up Monopoly,
Sixteen Companies B cling
Under Indictment-All
Enter mot Guilty"
Plea.

acting on the request OIL tne DepaTl-
mcnt of Justice and counsel for the
defense. United States Circuit Judge
Nathan Gon announced yesterday that
the case against tho so-called bathtub
trust would be heard in the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals in
Richmond on May 20. Special United
states Attorney Edwin p. Grosvenor
and Attorney Noble, for the govern
mcnt and a. Caper,on Braxton. for the
defense. appeared before Judge Golf
yesterday morning and asked that q
date be fixed Ut which the hearing
might begin. Circuit Judges Golf and
Jeter c. Pritchard and United States
District Judge John {. Rose will SIT.
To Break UP N1onopoiy.
Criminal proceedings grew out OF a
suit instituted b. the Federal gov
eminent 10 dissolve the alleged COM
bination. which was begun in Balti-
more some months ago The case is
entered against trust. ranking al
most with the STANDARD OIL and to-
bacco litigation.
The object of this cause against
the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
Company. otherwise known as the
'bathtub trust" said Judge Con last
night, rs to enforce the Sherman anti
trust laws. This corporation Is al
legged TO be carrying on business in
violation of this enactment or Con-
gress. and the suit against it was In
stituted by the Attorney General of
the United States. The idea OF the
litigation is to restrain them from
violating the provisions OF the act, and
from carrying out and conducting q
monopoly"
sv,s4f ~ ODcers :AIng- .GoAto jail.
The presidents and other important
officers OF sixteen companies. comprfs
ing what has been known as the bath
tub trust, were indicted last December
in Detroit for violation of the Sherman
antitrust law. This was one OF the
biggest cases that the Department OF
Justice ever undertook under the anti
trust law. Under the Indictment, tho
officers OF the companies are liable TO
jail sentences in case of conviction.
The sixteen companies We're also In
dicted as corporations. The evidence
mcnt OF the Department of Justice.
shovel that the annual output OF
be thugs and plumbers supplies made
by the companies has value of sl5,-
5000: that the companies agreed to
fix the prices at which these commodi-
ties should be sold, both to jobbers
and by them to the retail trade Such
iobhers as would not bind themselves
TO sell as the combination prescribed
We're To be ostracizcd.
Early in January pleas of mot
guilty" were entered by the forty de-
PENDANTS in the criminal cases in the
Federal Court in Detroit. On January
s, Edwin l.. Wayman. chief witness
for the government in the cases, was
arrested In his Office In Pittsburg. He
was released upon admission 10 bail.
and was TO appear in Detroit in March,
as n witness.
Long list of Defendants.
Il The defendants in the case are:
Theodore Ahrens FrancisieJ. Tor
rance. y. l.. Dawes and W. A. Myler,
president, first vice president second
vice president and treasurer OF the
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Com
pany; c. NJ. Voegele and Il. r.. Barnes.
president and secretary OF the Barnes
Manufacturing Company; Frank II.
Caldwell and j. j. Mahoney. president
and vice-president of the Cnhlll Iron
Works; Jesse IT. Duryea and Bert o
Tilden. president and secretary of the
Colwell Load Company; w. c. Win
vice president OF the Day-Ward Com
pany: S. NJ. Ford and Reid Carpenter.
president and secretary of the Hum
phreys manufacturing Company; ]. y.
Fraucnhem. president and treasurer
of the Kerncr Manufacturing Com
panY; Jordon L. Mott and Max Goebel.
president and secretary of the j. L.
Mott Iron Works; Thomas Walker and
Alexander G. Walker, president and
director Of McNay & Walker: LLOYD z.
McCrum and Howard r. Gates presi-
dent and secretary of the NIcCrum-
Howell Company; Frank G.. Gordon and
y. w. Davis, president and secretary
OF the National Sanitary Manufactur-
Ing Company; L, G. TIutsman and v.
Brigham. president and secretary OF
the Union Sanitary Manufacturing
Cline. .Jr.. president and secretary OF
the United states Sanitary AInnufac
turing Company; Alton Weiskittel.
president of a. Wcisklttel & Sons Com
pany; Ludwig Wolf and Herman N
lIoclschcr, president and secretary or
L. Wolf Manufacturing Company. j. Il,
Wright and George w. Franzhcun.
president and secretary of the Wheel
Ing i;nameled Iron Company; Standard
Sanitary Misunderstanding Company.
Pittsburg;aA. Weiskittcl K Sons COM
pany, Baltimore; The Barns AIanufac-
turing Company. Mansfield. o.; The Ca
hill iron Works, Chattanooga, Tenn:
Colwcll Lead Company. New York City:
The DAY. Ware Company, Warren. o.:
The humphreys Manufacturing Com
pany. Mansfield. O.. kcrncr Manufac-
turing Company, Pittshurg "a. L. Mott
Iron Works. New York City: McVay x
Walker Braddock. Pa; McCrum- How
ell Company. New York City; National
Sanitary misunderstanding Company, 'Sa-
lem, O.: Union Sanitary Manufacturing
Company, Noblesville. Ind; Ls Wolff,
Manufacturing Company. Chicago, and
WheclinS Enamclcd Iron n f.nmnanv ".