Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-29
PACKERS INDICTED
BY U. S. JURY
Swift & Co. Accused Of Relating and
Armour & Co. Of Shipping Stale
Esss-Independent Harvester Com
pany Agents Also Indicted.

Chicago. Mey Establishments were
returned by the federal grand jury yes
terday against Swift & Co.. Armour &
Co. and two employees OF the Armour
liam Zuckerman.
The indictment against Swift & Co.
charges rebating on shipments of meat
and other products from the stockyards
to various points in Michigan. Armour
& Co. and its two employees are charged
with shipping a large quantity OF cold
storage eggs OF ancient vintage to
Detroit in violation of the rure food
law
The indictments were returned be-
fore Judge Lands. A total of twenty
nine counts are contained in the true
bill against Swift & Co. Twenty five
OF the counts carry a maximum fine of
$4,000 and four fine of $1,000 each in
the event of conviction.
The indictment relates to the same
shipments which the government made
the basis of an indictment against
Swift & Co. returned Jan. 81, 1914. Dis
trict Attorney Charles F. Clyne and
Albert L. Hopkins, his assistant, said
the new Indictment is an amplifcation
Of the earlier true bill with the govern
ments theory as to billing and other
shipping details further emphasized as
false billing"
1t is charged by the government that
Swift & Co. violated section 1 of the
Elkins act and section 10 of the act to
regulate commerce. The shipments in
volved were made June !, 1912, over
the Northwestern railway to Manito-
voc. Wis, and thence by car ferry and
the Ann Arbor railroad to points in
Michigan.
Points Of destination named are
Frankfort. Beulah. Harlan, Copenish,
Mesick. Harrietta, Bunyea, Cadillac,
Park Lake, Marion, Mount Pleasant,
Shepperd Alma, Ithaca, Elsie, and
OwosSo.
Details Of Charges.
The corporation is charged with re-
batting by means Of obtaining a lowe
rate of transportation than the rate
published with the interstate commerce
commission. It Is also charged with
making out false papers to the railroad
as to the destination OF the shipments.
obtaining in this way lower than the
published tariff.
The alleged false billing consisted
according to the Indictment, of making
out bills covering carload lots, on which
one rate obtains, and shipping the
products in less than carload lots, or
which another and higher rate obtains
Among the products involved in the
shipments were dresser meats soap
| and oleomargarine. On dressed meats
tho tariff on carload lots Is 4S cents
according to the indictment. and the
| rate paid was 81 cents. On soap the
carload lot rate IL Is cents and the
rate paid was 50 cents. On butterins
the carload rate Is 43 cents and the
rate paid was "a cents. These rate.
are on joint shipments on the roads
named.
Harvester Agents Indicted.
Six former stock selling agents Of tn,
Independent Harvester Compay o
Plano, ILL.,, were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury Thursday on charge.
Of using the mails in scheme to de.
fraud farmers all over the middl,
west
The indictment was returned befor,
Judge Lands. It supplements an in.
| dictment returned three weeks agt
against William Campbell Thompson
founder and former president Of tn,
company, and eight former official!
and agents charged with using tn.
mails In an alleged fraudulent stool
| selling scheme.
Those indicted In tho supplementar,