New Britain herald., 1914-07-23
CIVIL SUIT FILED FOR DISSOLUTION OF
 NEW HAVEN ROA|
Corporation Charged Wilh Bcll
 Combination in Restraint
 Of Trade.
CONTROLS LARGE PART
 OF TRANSFORMATION uNd

OF TRANSFORMATION uNd Federal Court Asked to Separate Ns|
 Haven From Boston and Main|
 From old New England RaaIwa|
 From Sound Steamship Lines az|
 From Trolleys in Rhode Island az|
 Connecticut.-Reee suwgestel
 New York, July 2s.-Civil suit compel the dissolution of the Ns| Haven railroad under the Sherma| Antitrust act was filed in the feder( court here today by T. W. Gregorj acting for Attorney General M{ Reynolds.
 nection with the criminal indictment to be sought by the attorney gener@ against New Haven officers and dire< tors. This is different phase the New Haven case. to be taken u later and conducted individually the civil suit
 The New Haven is charged in tl1 brief filed today with being @ comb nation in restraint of trade, whid controls over ninety per cent. of t1I rail and trolley trafYic of New End land and about eiehty-fve per cenI of the steamship transportation that section.
 The court is asked to separate tf| New Haven from the Boston au| Maine railroad, from the old NeI England railroad. from its Sound an. outside steamship lines and from il trolleys in Rhode Island and Conne( ticut. Such general relief as tfI court deems At is also requested an. if the court deems best the brief sud gests the appointment of receiv for the road.
 May Ask Indictments.
 Although this suit has no conneI ton with the criminal proceedinG MT. Gregory and r. M. swacker, h principal assistant. may remain New York to present to federal grad jury evidence on which they will n1 for criminal indictments of New Fl ven officers and directors concern& in building up the alleged illegal mi nopoly in restraint of trade. Failu/ of either case is not expected to {. feet the proceeding of the other O. ficials of the department of justi@ have said that the New Haven md not make any determined fight to prI vent judgment in the civil suit exce1 regarding the plea that 1t be seM arated from the Boston and Mali. railroad. There is little questioI however, that if indictments are rZ turned by a grand jury it will mai the beginning of one of the most fuI portant criminal trials undertaken the government in many years. DX partment officials are said to feel thN no case of more far-reaching nu1 bilities than this one has been rfaftl under the criminal section of a Sherman law and that every effo/ should be made to press to & succeed full conclusion.
 The bill filed today goes much fl1X ther than the government expected go in its agreement with the New H| ven, now void. for its peaceful q solution. The New England raiiro1 was acquired by the New Haven yea ago, and practically. parallels the Nd Haven Shore Line much of the wi from Boston to New York. If tW court grants the governments peU tion the New Haven from its poi of domination of New England tran| portation will be reduced to It'd more than a line from Boston to Nd York hugging the Connecticut d Rhode Island coast with branch lin. short distances into the teHor.
 Defendants named in the brief ar| New York, New Haven and Hartfo Railroad company, The New Englad company. The New Yol Central and Hudson River Raiiroj New England Railrol Norwich and worcest Railroad company, Boston Termin Boston Railroad Holdil company, Boston and Maine RaI road, Rutland Railroad compau and Miners Transporf( lion company, Eastern steamship co poration, New York. westchester az Boston Railroad company. New Nn land Investment and Security con pany, Providence and Danielson Rai road company, The Union and Ne| Haven Trust company, old Coio5 Trust company Bankers Trust cod pany, William Rockefeller Charles Brooker, Morton F. Plant, John Pratt, George F. Baker. William Ski1 ner. D. Newton Barney, Robert Taft. James s. Elton. James S. Heu ngway. A. Heaton Robertson, Fred ,riok K Irewsfer Sa rpuel Ren Heur