Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-02
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ARE INDICTED
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attorney. Several. II was understood
were to be brought into court to aa-
swer the indictments this afternoon.
Among the officers and former di-
rectors of the New Haven also men,
toned as conspirators, but not in
dieted, were Edward N. Reed,
| Charles P. Clark, Chauncey NJ.
| Depew, Lucius futile, Charles s.
Mellen, Royal c. Taft, Richard A.
McCurdy, H. Mex. Twombley, Alex
ander ]. Cassett, Timothy E. Byrnes
| Edward G.. Buckland, Oakleigh
| Thorne and Marsden j. Perry and
divers officers, agents, attorneys and
| employees of the New Haven company
whose names are to grand jurors
unknown"
After naming the 100 corporations
the indictment charges that the con-
spirators used certain of them, in
GLIDING the New England Navigation
Company, the Boston Railroad Hold
ing Company, the Billiard Company
and the New England Steamship
Company, through their influence,
credit and funds to impose upon the
other concerns contracts and working
arrangements which would insure
monopolization of commerce "in har-
mony with the designs of such con-
spirators."
said conspirators," reads the in
dictment, "were to induce and compel
such sales of capital stock, such leas-
ing of properties and facilities and
such making of contracts and work.
ing arrangement and such engaging
in combination by using and threat
ening to use the advantage possessed
by the said New Haven company and
the accumulation of power arising
from the control of some of the said
other common carriers 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 en-
gage in its in combination with and
in subordination to said New Haven
Company"
The commerce which 1t is alleged
was monopolized by the defendants
consisted of water, steam and cleo
trio railroad transportation in all the
New England States, New York,
New Jersey "and every other State
of the United States" The conspir-
aoy is alleged to have extended from
July 2, 1890, the day the Sherman
antitrust act became law, until
THE day of the finding and presenta-
ton Of this indictment"
Indicted Foremost Financiers.
The men indicted include some of
the foremost financiers and railroad
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 +. 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 ]. p Morgan, ST., and
one of the most distinguished attor-
neys in the United States.
Charles NJ Pratt is a director of
the Standard Oil Company, and we'll
known for his philanthropies in the
field of education.
Theodore n. Vail is the head of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company.
Edward d. Robbins, former gen.
eral counsel for the road and closely
associated with Charles S. Mellen in
the administration of the New Haven
affairs, is the only defendant named
who was not a director Of the road.
Charles F. BroolIer, of Ansonia,
Conn, is a director in some twenty
odd banks and industrial corpora
tons.
John L. Billiard is banker in Mer-
iden, Conn, who has figured in New
Haven financial transactions as the
Billiard Company" through which,
it is alleged, the control of the Bos-
ton and Maine railroad was kept in
the hands of the New Haven.
Henry H. McHarg is a director in
nine other railroads and industrial
companies.
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler is one of
the wealthiest men in Philadelphia,
and has large banking and railroad
interests.
Robert w. Taft, of Providence, r.
J., is director in several other New
England corporations, and Royal c.
Taft, who was mentioned in the list
Of conspirators not indicted, was a
former governor of the State of
Rhode Island. Mr.. Taft died in 1912.
Francis T. Maxwell, of Rockville,
Conn, is a manufacturer, identified
with several other corporations in
Hartford. Conn.
William Skinner, of Ho'yoke, Mass,
has large interests in New England
manufacturing enterprises and in
other railroad corporations and in
surance companies.
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