Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-17
Total S57, OO7 Fines
For Bath Tub Trust.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 16.--Judge Clar-
ence w. Sessions in federal district
court, Saturday imposed fines rang
ing from 81 to $4,000 on the II indi-
vidual and Il corporation defendants
convicted, Friday, in the trial of the
So called Bath Tub Trust for criminal
conspiracy in restraint of trade
The fines totaled SOL, 007 and they
must be paid, on or before March [.
In the cases of the individuals, if the
fines are not paid before that date a
sentence not exceeding six months in
the Detroit House of Correction will
apply.
The sentences follow: Standard San
itary Manufacturing Company of
Pittsburg, $4,000; Barnes Manufae-
turing Company of Mansfield, o..
$1,000; ]. l.. Mott Iron Works of New
York, $4,000; L. Wolff Manufacturing
Company. Chicago, $4,000; McVay &
Walker, Braddoek, Penn, $500; Ma
tional Sanitary Manufacturing Com
pany of Salem, O., $1,000; Union San
itary Manufacturing Company of No
blesville, Ind, $1500; A. Weiskettel &
Son Company of Baltimore, $1,000;
Wheeling Enameied Iron Company of
Wheeling w. Va, $500; Humphries
Manufacturing Company of Mansfield,
o.. now in receivers hands. 81; Me-
Crum- Howell Company of New York,
in receivers hands, 81; United States
Sanitary Manufacturing Company of
Pittsburg which pleaded nolo conten-
dere, $500, and the Ward Com
pany of Warren, o.. also in the hands
of creditors, 81.
Individual defendants fines-Theo-
dore Ahrens, &c. L. Dawes and Francis
]. Torrance, officers of the Standard
Sanitary Manufacturing Company,
$4,000 each; T. r. Barnes of the Barnes
Manufacturing Company, $500; Jess,
7. Duyrea of New York, $1,000; Frank
G.. Borden of the National Sanitar
Manufacturing Company, 81; A. Weis-
kettle, of A. Weiskettle & Sons Com
pany, $1,000; Herman Hoelscher of the
l.. Wolff Manufacturing Company.
$4,000; A. II. Clinew, Jr, of the United
States Sanitary Manufacturing Com
pany, $10o0 H. r. Gates of the Nc
Crum- Howell Company and j. f.
Wright Of the Wheeling Enameled Iron
Company, s5$$ each and three others 81
each.
/ In passing sentence Judge Sessions
said that the department OF justice had
urged Imprisonment for Ahrens, Tor
rance and Dawes of the Standard San
itary Manufacturing Go. He explained
the fines as imposed upon them by
saying
Although ] am firmly convinced thai
they were the dominating influence in
bringing about the effectiveness of the
conspiracy, l must take other things into
consideration. The case has been tried
once before, before an able Judge fol
whose opinion | have the profoundest re
speet, and he ordered the dismissal o
the charge against those three men. They
preferred, however. TO stand trial VIII
the rest. While l differ with the former
Judge in opinion. / must take into Con
sideration the chance that | may be mis-
taken and ! must act accordingly
THE fine against their company. til,
Standard, was the largest of an
Judge Sessions explained' the difference
in the amounts of the fines by sayins
that he had imposed them after he hat
taken into special consideration the finan
cial condition of the various defendant
and the part they played in the conspir
,aey.
The defence refused to state whethe
an appeal would be taken in the case.