The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-11-05
new HAVEN HEADS
ARE INDICTED ON
CRIMINAL CHARGE
IWenty-one Directors and For.
rler Officials Face Maximum
Penalty Of One Year In
Jail and 5000 Fine.
HIGH FIMANClERs M
conspiracy Charged - Rookie
teller, Vail, Baker, Skinner,
BROKER and Billiard Among
Those Accused.
HIGH FIMANClERs NAMED

New York, Nov. 3.-Criminal indict-
Inehts were returned today by the Uni
TED states grand jury against q di-
IectorS and former directors of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
T.allroad company including William
Isockefeller, Theodore N. Vail. George
r. Baker, William Skinner and Charles
+. Brooker John l.. Billiard.
Inc indictments charge conspiracy
IN violation of the Sherman antitrust
law TO monopoiize commerce.. Under
section two, of the law, under which
they We're returned, the maximum pen
ATTY, upon conviction is one year i'm
prlsonment and $4,000 fine.
Inc complete list of those indicted is
as follows: William Rockefeller, George
MacCu!loch Miller: Charles f. Brook
er, William Skinner, d. Newton Bar
ney; Robert w. Taft, James S. Elton,
James S. Hemingway, Lewis Cass
Leoyard, Charles NJ. Pratt, A. Heaton
Robertson, Frederick f. Brewster,
henry K. McHarg, Edward D.. Robbins,
former general ounse of the road: AL
exander Cochrane, JOIN l.. Billiard,
George +. Baker. Thomas Dewitt Guy
lei, Theodore N. Vail, Edward Milligan
and Francis T. Maxwell.
semen warrants were issued for the
Il men named in the Indictments, upon
request of the district attorney. Sew
efai, 1t was understood, We're to be
DtouSLL INTO court TO answer the m
dlctments this afternoon.
The amount of bail was fixed at S.
GOO each by Federal Judge t'osler. OF
the u men indicted only five are now
on the New Haven directorate. They
are; MessTs. Kuyler, McHarg, Milligan,
Brewster, and Maxwell. These u men
are charged, in the language of the in
dlctment, as follows:
With having combined and con-
splred together with numerous other
persons, to m~onopolize commerce
especially in the transportation bust
ness
The indictment enumerates a large
mately 1900, whose business it is
charged, az to be monopolized.
Morgan Also Named.
The late ]. p. Morgan is named in
he bill as one of the conspirators.
Among the officers and former di-
rectors Of the New Haven, also men
toned as c~onspirators, but not in
1icted, We're: Edward n. Reed, Charles
p. Clark. Chauncey N. Depew, Elias
Tart, Richard y. McCurdy, II. NICK.
T~Wolnbley, Alexander j. Cassett.
Timothy e. Byrnes, Edward G. Buck
land, OalleiGh Thorne, and Marsden j..
Perry, and divers officers agents, at
torneys, and employees of the New
I4dNS4l company. NilOSc i!lllicS are 70
grand jurors unknown"
After naming 1G0 corporations, the
Indictment charges that the con-
~spiratorS used certain OF them, in
Guiding the New England Navigation
company, the Boston Railroad Holding
company, the Billiard company and he
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 nIOnopOliZa-
ton of commerce in harmony with
the designs of such conspiratOrs."
said CCnSpiTatorS." reads the indict~
ment, Were 10 induce and compel such
sales OF capital stock. such leasing OF
properties INC facilities INK such MAX
ing of contracts n working agree
mentS and such engaging in COmhina-
ton 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
ricrs to grasp the commerce rightfully
and normally belonging to said other
and remaining common carriers and to
drive such other ommcn carriers out
of such except as they might
ngage in it in combination with and
! approximation to said New Haven com-
pany.'
The m which it is alleged was
~monopolized by the defendants consist
| ed of water. steam n 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 ., 1890, the day the
Sherman antitrust act became a law,
until the day Of the finding and pres
entation OF this Indictment
The men indicted include some OF
! the foremost fnauciers Inc railroad
men in the United States. Willi&nn
| Rockefeller is a brother OF John y.
| Rockefeller and one Of the chief fig
ures in tho Standard Oil company
George L. Baker is chairman OF tna
! First National bank, OF New York, ono
| Of the wcalthiest men in the United
| more thar 60 railroad and industrial
corporations.