Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-10
Twelve Noted Financiers to Be Tried on Charges, In-
 volving Prison Terms.
RESULT OF WRECK
 NEW HAVEN ROAD
Case will Be First Real Test of Grim. inal Clauses of Sherman Antitrust Law, and Outcome Is Awaited
 With Great Interest.

New York, Oct 9.-In the criminal gbranch of the United States district {court here next week the spectacle Twill be presented of a dozen of the kmost widely noted financiers ot .America being arraigned for trial on Ecriminal charges, conviction on (which may carry with it prison sen- Etences.
 The defendants are the past o1 present directors of the New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad company, who were indicted by the Federal grand jury last November on Ethe charge of having conspired to monopolize the transportation facili- lies of New England.
 The defendants include William Rockefeller, Lewis Cass Ledyard Charles F. Brooker, Charles M. Pratt Henry K. McHarg, Frederick F. Brewster, George MacCullough Miller b. Newton Barney, Robert H. Taft James Heaton Robertson, James Hemingway and Edward D. Robbins. Separate trials have been granted b George F. Baker, Alexander Coch- ane. T. Dewitt Cuyler, Theodore N. Tail, Francis T. Maxwell and Edward Nilligan. Three of the other direct rs included in the original indict- nents have received immunity be- ause of testimony which they gave while witnesses before the federal Lrand jury and the interstate com nerce commission. The three are ohm l.. Billiard, James $. Elton and William Skinner.
 The trial of the main body of de- endants is scheduled to begin before ircuit Judge William H. Hunt next Wednesday. That the proceedings Fill attract wide attention goes with hut saying, since the case is regarded Is the first real test of the efficiency f the criminal clauses of the Sher- han antitrust law No difficulty is Epected in the prosecution of the efendants from the fact that the ovenrment assented in it's civil set ement with the New Haven to the eilroads retaining control of the entral New England, the New York, ntario & Western and other rail bad companies which were once fparate from it. It will be con- Fnded that the civil suit and its set ement and the criminal trial are yo entirely separate things. The cts alleged in the criminal proceed gs have been practically admitted those connected with the New aven, and their responsibility for em can be established definitely by e minutes of the directors meet gs.
 It is expected that the defendants III contend that when they sane Pn! the acquisition of the various llroad, steamship and trolley lines ey were acting in their opinion erely for the best interests of the Pw Haven company and that the tlon that their policy was in any Ay contrary to the Sherman law yer entered their minds. But the psecution will, it is anticipated, re-
 that there could be no clearer in- nee of an attempt to monopolize that now, if ever, the punish mt prescribed by the statute should
 applied with full severity.
 The penalty which may be inflict-
 upon the defendants, if they are pvlcted, is Imprisonment for one
 IT, or fine of $5,O0O, or both II
 believed that the government will Pss for infliction of the prison sen
 zee in case of a conviction.