The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-11-05
new HAVEN HEADS
ARE INDICTED ON
CRIMINAL CHARGE
TWenty-one Directors and For
mer Officials Face Maximum
Penalty of One Year In
Jail and Sc. Fine.
HIGH FlNANclERS NAMED
Conspiracy Charged - Rookie
Teller, Vail, Baker; Skinner,
Brooker and Billiard Among.
Those Accused.

New York, NoY. 3.-Criminai indIct-
ments We're returned today by the Uni
ted States grand jury against 81 di-
rectors and former directors OF the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad company including William
Rockefeller, Theodore N. Vail, George
II. Baker, William Skinner and Charles
+. Brooker and John l.. Billiard.
n indictments charge conspiracy
In, violation of the Sherman antitrust
law to m~onopolize commerce. Under
section two, or the law, under which
they were returned, the maximum PEN
atty, upon conviction is one year Inn
prlsonment .andf $4,000. fine.
The complete list OF those, indicted Is
as follows: William Rockefeller, George
MacCglloch Miller; Charles f. Brook
er, William Skinner, ID. Newton Bar
ney; Robert w. Taft, James S. Elton,
James 8. Hemingway, Lewis Cass
Ledyard, Charles M. Pratt, A. Heaton
Robertson, Frederick f.. Brewster,
Henry X. McHarg, Edward d. Robbins.
former general counsel of the road; AL
exander Cochrane, John L. Billiard.
George +. Baker, Thomas Dewitt Guy
Ter, Theodore N. Vail, Edward Milligan
and Francis T. Maxwell. ,.t
Bench warrants were issued for the
II men named in the indictments, upon
request of the district attorney. Sew
eral, IL was understood, were to be
Drought into court to answer the In
dictments this afternoon.
The amount OF bail was ixed at S.
600 each by Federal Judge Foster. OF
the Fl men indicted only five are now
on the New Haven directorate. They
are: MessTs. Kuyler, McHarg, Milligan,
Brewster, and Maxwell. These 81 men
are charged. in the language of the in
dfctment, as follows: . 81, So.
with having combined and con-
spired together with numerous other
persons, to monopolize commerce
especially in the transportation bust
ness" - ... !
The indictment enumerates a large
number of corporations (%approxi-
mately 1907, whose business it is
charged, was to be m~onopolized. O.,
Morgan Also Named.
The late j. p. Morgan is named in
the bill as one of the conspirators.
Among the officers and former d.
~rectors of the New Haven, also men
toned as conspirators, but not in
aicted, We're: Edward N. Reed, Charles
Z. Clark, Chauncey n. Depew, Elias
futile, Charles s.. Mellen, Royal G.
Taft, Richard A. McCurdy. H. NICK.
Twombley, Alexander j. Cassett,
Timothy E. Byrnes, Edward c.. Buck
land, -Oakleigh Thorne, and Marsden j..
Perry, M divers officers agents, at
torneys, and employees of the New
Haven company, whose names are to
grand jurors unknown"
After naming 100 corporations, the
Indictment charges that the con-
sspirators used certain of Them, in
GLIDING the New England Navigation
company. the Boston Railroad Holding
company. the Billiard company and the
New England Steamship company.
through their influence, credit and
funds to impose upon the other con-
germs contracts and working arrange
ments which would insure monopoliza-
ton of commerce 'in harmony with
the designs of such cOnspirators.' :
said cCnspirators," reads thetindict-
ment, "were'to induce n compel such
sales OF capital stock. such leasing of
properties and Facilities and such max
ing 4 81, contracts and working agree.
mehts and such engaging in combina-s
ton by using and threatening to use,
the advantage possessed by said New
Haven company and the accumulation
OF power arising from the control or
sopae OF the said other common car
rters TO grasp the ~rightfully
and normally belonging to said other
and remaining common carriers n TO
drive such other common carriers out
of such commerce, except as they might
engage in il in combination with and
approximation to said New Haven ON
pany." "a
The which 1t is alleged was
monopolized by the defendants consist
ed of water, steam and electric railroad
transportation In all the New England
states, New York, New Jersey. and
every other state of the United States"
The conspiracy is alleged to have ex-
tended from July 2, 1890, the day the
Sherman antitrust act became a law,
until 'the day of the finding n pres
entation of Acknowledgement"
The men indicted include some, of
- - I'll
men in the United States. William
Rockefeller is a brother of John d.
Rockefeller and one of the chief fig
ures in the Standard Oil company.
George F.. Baker is chairman OF the
First National bank, of New York, one
Of the wealthiest men in the United
States, and until recently a director In
more than 60 railroad n Industrial
corporations.