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SUES new HAVEN
FOR dissolution
u s Brlrgs Action to Crush
the Monopoly.
CRIMINAL Move LATER
Papers Filed In New York Court Al
Ieae Corporation Practiced Fraud
and Trickery.

New York, July 24.-CISh suiI W
force the separation of the New YORK;
New Haven & Hartford Railroad com
pany from its subsidiary rail-, troiieS
and steamship lines under the Sher-
man antitrust act was filed in the
federal court here by Attorney 1eh-
eral McReynolds.
The suit has no actual connection
with the criminal indictments winch
the attorney general will ask federal
grand Jury to return against the New
Haven officers and directors concern
ed in the upbuilding OF the alleged un.
lawful combination in restraint Oh
trade. The criminal proceedings Will
be conducted independently OF the
civil suit. and the failure or success OF
one is not expected to affect the 9TH
er proceeding.
T. w. Gregory, special assistant to
the attorney general, who wrote and
fled the brief, and F. M. Swacker, an
expert from the interstate commerce
commission, who has worked many
months on the case, are expected TO
Law the evidence before grand jury
on which indictments will be asked. Ii
was understood that these officials
feel that they have sufficient evidence
to make out a prima facie case against
many New Haven officers and d1rec'
tors, and II this view is correct 1nd1ct'
ments may be returned within a few
weeks.
Such action will mark the beginning
Of what may prove to be the most I'M
portant criminal proceeding ever un-
dertaken under the Sherman anti
trust act in the twenty-four years IL
has been on the statute books.
Tc the civil suit the New Haven
may not offer any great defense, but
government officials would be greatly
surprised If the attempt to convict
directors and officers does not lead to
q great legal battle, which probably
will not end this side of the United
States supreme court.
The brief, written by Mr.. Gregory,
charges the New Haven with being an
unlawful monopoly, which controls
more than 80 per cent of the railroads
and trolley lines Of all New England
and more than IS per cent OF the
: steamship transportation of that re-
zion. The court Is asked to restore
competition by ordering the separa
ton of the New Haven from the Bos'
ton & Maine railroad from its sound
and outside steamship lines and from
its trolley system in Rhode Island and
Connecticut.
Among the specific remedies asked
II that the New Haven be compelled
to sell to persons not its stockholders
or agents or otherwise under its con
troll and influence, all its interests in
steamboat and trolley lines, in the
Boston & Maine railroad, in the Rut
i1ni railroads; IN the New England
Railroad company and in all of the
wharves and water terminals owned
BY It and that it be enjoined from
thereafter holding such interests, and
that the partnership contract between
the New York Central and the New
Haven for the operation of the Boston
4 Albany railroad will be cancelled.
The brief suggests that If the court
deems it best it appoint a receiver to
take over the property and bring II
into harmony with the law, and asks
for the customary general relief" il
the court finds 1t necessary.