New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-18
AL TERMS IMPOSED ON
% CASH REGISTER MEN
\. Patterson, President. and
% Others Get One Year;
Nine Months for Three.
SINGLE DEFENDANT SPARED
r,..oe Months Sentence of G
A. Edgeter, Secretary, Set
Aside-Court Denounces
Trusts Greed for Gain.

Ac1uG-OOoi
Trusts Greed for Gain.
o,,ati Feb. l7.-President John H..
.,son. Of the National Cash Register
S", Of Dayton. Ohio, was sentenced
So, 70 serve one year in the county
,on Of Troy. ohio. and to pay fine OF
;. no for violation of the Sherman anti
law. Twenty-eiGht other officials
.a employees of the company received
al sentences varying from three months
- o,o wear and We're ordered TO pay the
.os,s Of the prosecution.
Tho sentences were pronounced after
,rdoe HOLSTER of the United States Dis
.,,c, Court. had denounced the defendants
,;,torlv for their business methods. which
Ia declared were needless i'm a concern
rbere millions of dollars could have been
.,ado leritimately and without violation
of the law. He added;
"Tbe government is strong enough TO
,ro,ect its people whether this protection
extends 10 the transportation Of dynamite
across the land for the purpose Of blow
ing I'D bridges or the laying of the hands
unon men who seek to stihe competition
nv Illegal business methods"
Hioh Officials Get Year.
Sentences Of one year were imposed on
the following defendants:
John H. Patterson. Dayton. president.
Edward \. Deeds. Dayton. vice-presi-
dent.
william L. Muzzy. Dayton.
william Plum. Dayton.
Eobcrt Patterson. Dayton. director
Thomas j. Watson. sales manager.
Joseph r. Rogers, assistant sales man
sger.
Alexander G. Harmed salesman
Frederick : High. district manager
Boston.
PHny. Ewes. district manager. san
Francisco.
Arthur T. Wcntz. Columbus.
George T. Morgan. Dayton.
Charles T. Walmsley, Chicago
charles : Snyder, Elizabeth. y. j.
Walter cool. Denver
Mvron Jobes. Pittsburgh.
Mont l.. I.asley. Detroit.
Earl T. Wilson, Los Angeles
Alexander W. Sinclair, New York.
John j. Range. Washington.
NJ 6. !. Keith, New York.
William Cummings. Brooklyn.
D. g.. Laird Toronto.
". G. Howe. San Francisco.
~. Epperson. Minneapolis.
Tho following received sentences Of nine
months
William Bppus. Dayton. treasurer.
Jonathan 3. Hayward. New York.
Alfred A. Thomas Dayton.
George \ Edgeter. of Dayton secretary
% thc company. was sentenced TO three
months. but on the concurrence Of United
states Attorney Mcpherson. Judge Hollis
tar set aside the sentence. Edgeter had
not been connected with the National
Cash Register Company during the time
6xed in the indictment. and for this rea-
son the court permitted MIN 10 go free.
Sherman Act Called Unconstitutional.
motion for an arrest Of judgment on
the ground that the sherman law - un-
constitutional i'm so far as II attempts 10
create offences and impose penalties The
motion also charged that the Sherman Ia"
connicted with the provision of the Sixth
Amendment TO the Constitution ~hth
saws that in all criminal prosecutions the
accused shall enjoy the right TO be IN
formed Of the nature and cause OF Inc
accusation" against him. and that II con
nicts with the Tenth Amendment IA that
the avefments OF the court were vague
and indefinite
Following a notice Of an appeal TO the
Circuit Court Of Appeals. the bona oil
President Patterson was fixed at sl"W''
twice its former amount. The othei
bonds were left at 5000.
Nine Of the convicted men were SEN
fenced, with President Patterson, TO the
Miami County jail at Troy, ten were sen
fenced to the Montgomery County jan
in Dayton and eight to the neighDoring
jail at Lebanon. Warren County.
Referring to the sentences passed on the
employees, Judge Hollister said:
i know that a large salary will tempt
many men 20 engage in business such
as was conducted by this company anu
feel that the thought Of their families
led many Of these men 10 work a. they
did knowing that a large compensation
awaited them. This excuses. but does not
Justify. You men belong TO the walk Of
life which should set the example. Yet
you have lost the opportunity given you
by the methods you pursued. In your de-
sire for gain you forgot everything else
Judge HOLSTER declared that the main
tenance OF the competition department
with its gloom room and 'morsue'
constituted business methods that shouiu
not be countenanced. lie continued:
Il will not even refer 20 the acts oil
Edgar Park. alias FOote They were 80
despicablc that they ought not to be even
contemplated by business man IN eooo
standing"
President Patterson refused to MAKE
any comment.