Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-02
GRAND Jury |ND|CTS
q NEW HAVEN MEN
Bench Warrants Issued on
Criminal Presentments
Against Directors.
ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY
in RESTRAINT OF TRADE
Thirteen Additional Offenders Men
toned by u. S. Inquisitors, But
True Bills Not Voted.

| NEW YORK, November criminal
| indictments We're returned today by
the United States grand jury against
twenty-one directors and former di-
rectors of the New York. New Haven
| and Hartford Railroad Company, in
Guiding William Rockefeller, Theodore
N Vail, George F.. Baker, William
Skinner Charles F. Brooker and John
L. Billiard.
The indictments charge conspiracy
in vio,ation of the Sherman antitrust
law to monopolize commerce. Under
section of the law, under which
they were returned. the maximum pen
ATTY upon conviction is one year I'M
prisonment and $1,000 fine.
Bench warrants were issued for the
twenty-one men named in the indict-
ments. upon request of the district at
torney. Several, it was understood,
were to be brought into court to an
swer the indictments this afternoon.
Judge Foster announced the amount of
bail would be $1,000 each.
The complete list of those indicted is
as follows: William Rockefeller,
George MacCulloch Miller, Charles +.
Brooker, William Skinner, D. Newton
Barney. Robert W. Taft, James S. Ell
ton. James S. Hemingway. Lewis Cass
Ledyard. Charles NJ. Pratt, y. Heaton
Robertson, Frederick F. Brewster,
Alexander Cochrane, John L. Billiard,
George f. Baker, Thomas De Witt Guy
Ter, Theodore n. Vail, Edward MilIigan
and Francis T. Maxwell
Five Still on Board.
five are now on the New Haven direc-
Henry K. McHarg. Edward Milligan, f.
F. Brewster and f. z. Maxwell. These
tWenty-one men are charged, in the
language of the indictment, as follows:
With having combined and conspired,
together with numerous other persons,
to monopolize commerce consisting in
the transportation business
The Indictment enumerateS large
number of corporations approximately
! 16O) whose business, it is charged, was
to be monopoGzed. The late j. p. Nor
gan is named in the bill as one of the
conspirators.
Among the officers and former direct
ors of the New Haven also mentioned
as conspirators, but not indicted. were
Edward n. Reed, Charles P. Clark.
Charles S: Mellen. Royal G. Taft. Rich
ard A McCurdy. II. Mex: Twombley.
Alexander ]. Cassatt, Timothy E.
Byrnes, Edward G. Buckland. Oakleigh
| divers officers. agents. attorneys and
employees of. the New Haven company
whose names are to the grand jurors
unknown.
After naming the $50 corporations
the indictment charges that the con-
spirators used certain OF them, includ-
ing the New England Navigation Com
pany. the Boston Railroad Holding
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 monopollza-
ton of commerce lin harmony with
the designs of such conspirators.
Plan of Conspiracy.
said conspirators." reads the indict-
ment, "were to induce and compel such
sales of capital stock. such leasing of
properties and facilities, and such max
ing of contracts and working arrange
ments and such engaging in combina-
tion by using and threatening to use
the advantage possessed by said New
Haven Company, and the accumulation
OF power arising from the control of
some of the said other common car
ri ers, to grasp the commerce rightfully
and normally belonging to said other
and remaining common carriers and to
drive such other common carriers out
of such commerce, except as they
might engage in it in combination with
and subordination to said New Haven
company"
The commerce which, it is alleged,
was monopolized by the defendants
consisted of water, steam and electric
railroad transportation in all the New
sey "and every other state of the
United States"
The conspiracy is alleged to have ex-
tended from July 2, 1880. the day the
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until "the day of the finding and pres
entation of this Indictment
Who's Who.
The men indicted include some of the
foremost fnanciers and railroad men in
| the United States. William Rockefeller
| is brother of John D. Rockefeller and
one of the chief figures 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 sixty railroad and industrial
| corporations. Lewis Cass Ledyard was
! formerly attorney for j. j. Morgan.
sr., and one of the most distinguished
attorneys in the United States.
| Charles NJ. Pratt is director of the
Standard Oil Company and well known
for his philanthropiss in the field of
| education
| Theodore N. Vail is the head of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
| Company.
| Edward D. Robbins, former general
counsel of the road and closely associ-
ated with Charles S. Mellen in the td-
| ministration of the New Haven affairs,
| is the only defendant named who was
not director of the road
| Charles +. Brooker of Ansonia, Conn.,.
is director in some twenty-odd
| banks and industrial corporations.
John L. Billiard is 4 banker of
! Meriden, Conn.,. who has figured in New
| Haven financial transactions as the
Billiard Company" through which. it Is
alleged. the control of the Boston and
Maine railroad was kept in the hands
| of the New Haven.
| Henry X. McHarg Is director in nine
other railroad and industrial companies.
Thomas De Witt Cuyler is one of the
wealthiest men in Philadelphia. and has
large banking and railroad interests.
| Robert w. Taft Of Providence. r. l.,
lis director in several other New Eng
land corporations. and Royal c. Taft.
who was mentioned in the list of con-
spirators not indicted was a former
governor of the state of Rhode Island.
Mr. Taft died in 1912.
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