Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-30
BRINGS ACTION TO STv
MAKING or sHRAPN|
Complaint Filed In Milwaukee UA
So.Called "Discovery" Statute
of Wisconsin.
INJUNCTION WILL RE SOUGHT
Conspiracy Alleged Between Allls.
Chalmers Company and Bethlehem
Steel Company for Manufacture Of
War Munitions for Belligerents.

MILWAUKEE. WIS. April ga
complaint was filed to-day under the
so-called discovery" statute of Wis.,
mine whether the Aliis-Chalmers Com.
pany. Otto Falk, it president, and 9th.
ers have entered into a conspiracy
With the Bethlehem Steel Company and
others to manufacture and ship shrap-
mel shells to European belligerentsx
contrary to the Wisconsin law.
The action. service in which waz
cured tonight. calls for the appeara
OF Falk and tho other defendants
fore the Circuit Court commissioned
Milwaukee on May for p.efSTSS
action before pleading, as provsasat
Falk is cited to bring with him u
letters. contracts, correspondence
agreements between the Allis-Chalme
Company and the Bethlehem Steel Co
pany.
The complaint was filed by Sam
Pearson. who declares he is a citfZ
of the United States. and that he
valuable property interests iQca8
within the boundaries /of the GERM
empire. and that he Is owner of
curities issued by the German govetI
ment.
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AFTER WAR STARTE{
On informa ton and belief, Pearst
AYERS that the defendants. prior to til
war were engaged in the manufactI
lof peaceful instruments Of art and
dustry. and that tho manufactures
shrapnel was engaged in only
the war started.
The complaint set forth that -
belief that the defendants hss
tered into an unlawful conspir %I
the Bethlehem STEEL ComE/ay
others. and that such b conspiracy
dfcated is criminal offense under N
laws of Wisconsin.
The examination of the defendants
under the industry statute is for tho
purpose of ascertaining. among other
Things. the names of each person or
corporation with whom the defendar a
may have contracted for the manufac.
ture of shrapnel shells or similar mum
tons: the intent and nature of SUI,
contracts, and the names OF any cor
signees to whom such munitions MAY
have been shipped.
Upon the information gained in tbj
examination 1t is said that an injun(
ton suit will he brought to prevent
the defendants from continuing in AM
such conspiracy as is alleged.
TYPE INDISPENSABLE
20 BELLIGERENI
The complaint states that one ty
belligerents is the shrapnel she'll, d
signed for the destruction of hum
life and property. and that the int
OF the war being conducted against
German empire Is so to cripple the
pire as to compel the submission
Germany to the future III g15ostthae
It's national domain, or to tho
render OF Its sovereign life, as
allies may dispose. II victorious
Mention of President Wilson's
trality proclamation Is made, and
tain Federal statutes are cited,
ton OF which, 1t Is contended, q
tute breaches OF neutrality. ai6
NIT the offender to criminal pr -
ton for high crimes and
meanors."
According to the complaint.
ration OF the war would he ma
shortened and the operations rd
In wholesale bloodshed and to
ltfe and vast destruction of n
would be curtailed II arms and al
milton were withheld by the T
States from either OF the belligerc