The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-10-29
FINANCIAL KINGS
FACE PROSECUTION
r. FOR CONSPIRACY
Court Declares New Jersey Gen.
trail Railway and Coal Com
pany Are Combine !.
NEW HAVEN DIRECTORS u
USED POLITICAL BOSS
Government Takes Appeal From
| Decision Favoring United
!" States Steel Corporation
tAs-nciatsd Press by Federal wirs,ess.I

IAs-oniatsd Press by Federal wlreless.l
NEW YORK, October 29.-The de-
partment Of justice is now conducting
a series of prosecutions and investiga-
ti0ns under the terms of the antitrust
legislation. In the federal court at
Philadelphia yesterday court decree
was issued declaring that the owner
slip by the New Jersey Central Rail
road of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company constitutes cOnbina-
ton in restraint of trade. The decree
ordered a separation of the joint COZ
u Iol.
Conspiracy Is Alleged
In the trial of the eleven directors
Of the New York New Eaveu q Hart.
ford Railroad, charged with conspiracy,
one of whom is William RoG6efellsr,
brother of John ID. Rockefeller, the
goyernment has produced evidence
,sh0liwg tbat. NE. directors had employ
ed Gen Charles Brayron, the =" Blind
Boss " OF, Rhode Island, TO secure the
passage through thellegislature Of bills
authorizing the construction lines TO
compete with the New Haven system,
thus assisting in the financial destruc-
tion of the corporation.
Steel Trust Involved
In New Jersey yesterday, the govern
mcnt filed petition in the federal
court at Trenton for an appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the government g case against the Uni.
ted States Steel, Corporation, the fed
eIal court having decided against the
government in the suit brought against
the corporation under the Sherman
Act
or all the cases the government is
Low fighting against the corpora tiOns,
that against the New Haven directors
is attracting the most attention, b".
men charged with conspiracy.
Rockefeller Is Involved
William Rockefeller is brother OF
John D. Rockefeller, and one Of the
rishest men in America. More so than
lis brother, he has been IarG" factor
nj the railway world, hahn; be-. a;
Various times officer or director of
some of the most important railroads
OF the cOuntrv. Although h. recently
y, vered his connection with the New
Haven, he Is still listed rs 4 director
Of the New York Central, the chicago,
Milwaukee 4 st. Paul, and the Della
ware, Lackawanna & Western. MI
Rockefeller is now seVenty-fOur years
old and has been in poor health for
years, suffering from an affection OF
the throat. Three years ago the Con.
gressiOnal Committee which investigat
ed the "Money Trust" desired him as
witness and over the protests of his
physicians, an attempt was made to ex
anime him at his Southern home al
Jekyl Island, Georgia, where he was 10
Gated after weeks of search by sub
pocna servers. The questioning vas
abandoned when he was seized with
laryngeal spasms and after his physi'
iGns protested that the ordeal might
capse his death. Mr.. Rockefeller lives
at Tarrytown, New York.
Prominent Lawyer, Also
Lewis Cass Ledyard is one of the
prominent lawyers of the country. He
was for years counsel for the elder i
T. Morgan and was his chief adviser
in the organization or financing of q
number IF the great industrial and rail
road enterprises with which the Nor
gan firm has been connected, notably
the United States Steel Corporation
In several of them he became direc
tor, including, beside the New Haven
the New York Central, Northern Pa"i
fc and the American Telephone anL
Telegraph Company. He took a prom
ihent part in the famous deal which re
suited in the acquisition of the Ten
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