The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-11-05
Counsel for the Defense in
the New Haven Case En-
ter Some Objections
GOVERNMENT
IS SUSTAINED
~
More Correspondence Relat-
ing to Past IDEALS" Is
Read to the Jury

| New York, Nov. 5.--Anotner wrangle
as to whether the government should be
required to call Percy r. Todd, former
vice president of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railway, marked the
resumption yesterday of the trial OF
the l. present and former directors OF
the road under the Sherman antitrust
law.
The government announced Wednes-
day that it would not call Mr.. Todd to
identify letters he had written as it
did not care ito underwrite" him as a
witness. Counsel said they desired to
prove only the authenticity of the let
tiers, which would be done by another
witness.
Attorneys for the defense protested
Yesterday that Mr.. Todd should be re-
quired to appear as the identifying wit
ness so that they might cross examine
him on the contents of the letters.
1--WE do not care to prove our case
by a co-conspirator," said X. L. Bats
of counsel for the government.
Judge Hunt ruled in favor OF the gov
eminent. James w. Osborne, another
government attorney then resumed the
reading of letters from the files OF the
New Haven, through which it hopes to
prove that the road crushed out the
competition of the JOY Steamship line.
A letter from X. T. Haskins, general
traffic manager of the metropolitan
Steamship company, to Mr.. Todd, in
June, 1901, said he had informed friend
of his in reference to the Joy line inter-
,va.4lj ha flL "a
off and laid out on the Long Island shore
to dry, to be a warning that future
enterprises OF this kind might be avoid
ed. 1t looks to. me as though they were
getting pretty tired. They are tired of
losing; you are hitting them hard on
this Providence business"
Attorneys for the defense protested
that the letter was not relevant as the
Metropolitan Steamship company was
then an independent line. Judge Hunt
declined to entertain the objection, on
the ground that the letter was an answer
to request from Todd for information.
The letter further spoke of the Joy lines
poor financial condition at this time.
In July Haskins wrote to Todd sug-
gesting that he issue an annual pass on
the New Haven to Captain Horatio Hall
of the Dominion line for refusing TO
charter steamboat of that line to the
JOY line. This, according to another
letter, was done.
Letters were read in relation to at
tempts of the Joy line to lease steam
ers from the Florida East Coast Rail |
way company and John M. Hall, then
president of the New Haven, wrote to
William Rockefeller asking him to take |
up the matter with Henry NJ. Flagler,
owner of the Florida East Coast. Hall
stated that he did not believe Flagler |
would care to have his company lease
its boats to the Joy line in opposition !
to the New Haven. The letter was re-
ferred to Flagler and Flagler replied that /
he had officially retired from the Flori-
da East Coast, j. r. Parrott succeeding
him as president, but Flagler said he
would be very glad 30 do what he could.
Later Parrott assured Hall that moth
ing would be done TO interfere with
New Haven interests, especially where
Hall was personally affected. The JOY
line, the correspondence seemed 90 show,
was also blocked in an attempt 20 lease
a steamer from the Long Island Rail
road company.
Captain Dyer, who owned a lighter,
used TO keep il idle il appeared. An.
other letter suggested that sugar would
be carried for the American Sugar Re-
iining company for nothing rather than
permit the JOY line 10 have the business.