Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1915-03-14
CASH REGISTER
CASE REMANDED
l. =. PRENE COURT OVER.
RULES LOWER COURT N
AN1l-TRJST CASE.
EVIDENCE IS INSUFFICIENT
Twenty Nine Officials and President
of National Cash Register Com
Pany Pound Guilt, Two
Year Ago.

W. A.oua'sI rr,a
CINCINNATI. Ohio. March a.
Holding the evidence on one count
insufficient. and thni neither OF th,
other two counts should huyr been
considered by the District court
'hich tri'd the ease. the United
states Court at Appeals today over.
ruled the decision OF the lower
court which convicted John H Pat.
trson and twenty-siX other official.
and former Officials of the Na.
tlonal Cash Register Co of Dayton
Ohio. ON tht chare, of violating the
criminal section of tho sherman
antitrust law The case wa. rc.
manded 10 the lower court for re-
trial
Histof, of Cash I;cgistcr Case.
The def, ndants IN tht National
Cash Register Case who were indict-
ed Oy O federal grand Jury at Gin
cinnati three years ago numbered
thirty mon, including The president.
drhn " Patterson. and twenty
nine other officials or former Off
Gals and departmental heads of the
National Cash Register Company of
Dayton. q TWenty-ninc we're con-
vlcted by Jury In the United States
District Court. aud twenty-seven.
Including President Patterson were
sentenced oach 10 serve approximate
W years time in Ohio iails The
verdict was one OF tn most sweep
inc ever given under the criminal
t,ttion OF the sherman Law
indictment Reported In iOI2.
The Indictment was report d TO
United States District Judge Howard
H0llister. on February 20. 1879.
naming all thirty men as joint de-
1endauts IN an alleged conspiracy 10
crush competition by warfare or
competitors. In violation of the
Federal Law. Al Of the jefen-
dents came to Cincinnati immediate
ly and gave bond for their appear
anres iu court The trial WIS be-
sun on November -. 1872 II
continued tor almost three months.
the verdict of guilty being return
- lc the iury on February t3
t't"
Sentences we're passed hy ludrc
Unlhster on February a.
President Patterson WAS srntcnr
I'd to pay $4,000 fine aul serve one
wear m the Miami Jail
President Patterson First Sentenced.
Tho following we're sent auccd tu
costs aud one year Imprisonment 7i
u q fHHa la
county iails
Edward A Deeds. William D
Bippus. william 70 Nuzzt. William
pOum, Robert Patterson. Thomas j
Watson. iu.rph q. Rogers Nlo,au.
der e. Harmed. Frederick S High.
Pliuy Ewes. \. 4 WcItz. George D.
Morgan. Mont H. Leasloy, Earl y
WILSON, Aloz NJ sinclair John d..
Range. NJ g. Keith. j. &. Laird "
Howe. T. " Eppcrson. Charles
f Walmsl' 'v Charles s. SNYDER.
N,pr y Jacobs. aud Walter COO.
while D. - HAYWARD and s a.
Thomas received sentence ot uino
mouths
Tho ease OF one ol ODE men In
'ii WV. fHNHnN INNh VI ~ ' Y w Nf
was dismissed. while the sentence of
another. George e.. Edgeicr vn+
.Hsp,pd,l The sent nee oi the
third. William G. Cummtc- uH.
deferred as D, was seriously 100 az
ihc time Judge Hollister pronouuc-
'd Judgment
Case T. appealed
Notice OF appeal 10 the United
states Circuit Court of Appeal Na-
Immediately giyen by the attorneys
Coo convicted mon The rouu uyed
President pattcrsou's bond at Sfu.
nuu and tho rrmainiuE defendants
bonds Co Ss.UUu zach a soon as
uosable thereafter. a.. record OF
tlo case. thD most volumiuous ever
Tiled iu the local courts. VAS placed
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