Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-02-20
TRUSTS
FINES 81 TO $4,000
Thirteen Individuals and ID Com.
panies Must Pay $51, 007 on
or before March 1.

Detroit. Mich. Feb. 16.-Judge Clarence
W. Sessions in federal district court to-
day, imposed fines ranging from 81 to
$4,000 on the IA individual and IL corpor-
alton defendants convicted Friday in the
trial of the sc-called bathtub trust for
criminal conspiracy In restraint OF trade.
The fines total s51,o07 and they must be
paid on or before March 1. In the cases
OF the individuals, II the fines are not
paid before that date a sentence not ex-
cecding six months in the Detroit house
of correction will apply.
The sentences follow Standard Sanitary
Manufacturing company of Plttsburg,
$1,000; Barnes Manufacturing company
Of Mansfield, Ohio, $1,000; j. l.. Mott Iron
Works Of New York 5000: l.. Wolff
Manufacturing company. Chicago. 5000;
McVay & Walker, Braddock, Pa, 1900 Ma
tional Sanitary Manufacturing company
of Salem Ohio, $1,000; Union Sanitary
Manufacturing company of Noblesville,
Inu, $3.50; A. Weiskcttel & Son company
OF Baltimore, $1,000; Wheeling Enameled
Iron company OF Wheeling, w. Va, 500;
HUMPHREYS Manufacturing company OF
Mansfield, Ohio, now In receivers hands,
York, in receivers hands. 81: United
States Sanitary Manufacturing company
of Pittsburg, which pleaded nolo conten-
dere $500; and the Hayward company
OF Warren, Ohio, also in the hands of
creditors 81.
Individual defendants fines: Theodore
Ahrens, r. L. Dawes and Francis r Tor
rance. officers OF the Standard Sanitary
Manufacturing company 5000 each T.
r. Barnes of the Barnes Manufacturing
COMPANY 500: Jesse T. Duryea OF New
York, sl,C0O; Frank G. Borden CT the Ma
tional Sanitary Manufacturing company,
81; A. Weiskcttel of A. Weiskettel & Son $
company 81 900; Herman Hoelscher Of the
Wolff Manufacturing company. $500; A,
H. Clnew, Jr.. OF the United States SAM
tary Manufacturing company, 1900: II.
Z. Gates of the McCrum- Howell company
and j. e Wright of the Wheeling Enam-
eled Iron company, SIN each, and three
others 81 each.
In passing sentence Judge Sessions said
that the department Of justice had urged
Imprisonment for Ahrens, Torrance and
Dawes OF the Standard Sanitary Manu-
featuring company He explained the
fines as imposed upon them by saying:
Although I am firmly convinced that
they were the dominating influence In
bringing about the effectiveness OF the
conspiracy, I must take other things into
consideration. The case has been tried once
before. before an able judge for whose
opinion I have the profoundest respect,
and he ordered the dismissal OF the charge
against those three men. They preferred
however. to stand trial with the rest
While differ with the former judge in
opinion. | must take into consid erati the
chance that may be mistaken and must
act accordingly.
THE fine against their company. the
Standard. was the largest 81 all
Judge Sessions explained the difference
in the amounts OF the fines by saying
that he had imposed them after he had
taken into special consideration the fnan-
cial condition Of the various defendant.
and the part they played in the con-
spiracy.
The defense refused to state whether an
| appeal would be taken In the case