South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-26
Not a Stone Was Left Unturn-
ed in Effort to Kill Compe-
tition, According to
MeIIen'S Letters.
MEN ON TRIAL so FAR
ARE NOT IMPLICATED
Testimony is Confined Mostly
to Witness, Charles ?.
Clark, Former President
and J. P. Morgan.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-That the New
Haven railway left no stone unturned to
hog" all the traffic possible in New
England was further shown today in
the conspiracy trial of William Rookie
Teller, Lewis Cass Ledyard. and nine
other directors of the railroad before
Judge Hunt in the United States dis
trict court.
The eccentric Mellen letters again
were the order of the day. The cor
respondence Of Charles S. Mellen, sec
ond vice president, and then president
Of the New Haven, who in his letters
went from humor to pathos from the
sublime to the ridiculous, quoting al
most every author from Epictetus and
Macaulay to Joe Miller form, like the
diary of Samuel Pepys. a true history
of his time, in the opinion of the gov
eminent.
The prosecution is depending on the
Mellen letters. read in large quantities,
to prove that the New Haven violated
the law in methods by which it brow
beat the New York & New England
railway into a receivership, thereby
enabling the New Haven to destroy its
most powerful rival in New England
and TO obtain its stock at the lowest
possible figure.
duplicates Three.
Mellen's testimony so far. though
has failed to implicate the men on
trial, being mostly confined to him
self, Charles p. Clark, former presi-
dent of the New Haven, and j. p.
Morgan. i
When Mellen resumed the stand this
morning he was noticeably tagged and
not nearly so dapper and debonair as
last week.
A delay occurred in opening court
because no stenographer was present,
but when the expert appeared, the
government resumed reading Mellen's
correspondence regarding the New
York & New England railroad.
How the New Haven paved the way
to shut the New England out OF New
York city was shown by a letter
identified by MeIlen and read by the
government. written in 1898 from
Charles p. Clark, president Of the
New Haven to the late j. Z. Morgan.
Clark asked Morgan to get out of the
Manhattan railway so that the New
Haven might acquire that line.
The Manhattan was the only ingress
of the New York and Northern rail-
way into New York IL ran from
155th st. to Brewster and was the New
England's only entrance to New York.
The New York and Northern. when
the New Haven acquired the Manhat-
tan. became the Putnam division of
the New York Central. Thus the New
York and New England was shut COM
pletely out of New York city.
Frank NJ. Swacker, assistant attor-
ney general. then read letter from
Mellen to General Traffic Manager
Weller, of the Boston and Albany, re-
lative to cutting off freight traffic from
the New England. Next the gov
eminent, through letters, showed how
the New Haven sought, through dis
elimination against the Boston and
Albany railway TO cripple the freight
traffic of the New York Central in
New England. First was read a let
ter from Chauncey NJ. Depew, then
president of the Central. to Pres't
Clark of the New Haven, protesting
against the cutting off from the Cen
trail of traffic it heretofore had en-
joyed from the Boston and Albany
and the Housatonic. which had passed
to the control Of the New Haven De-
pew said he hoped he was laboring
under a Misrepresentation as to the
New Ravens order, and hoped it
would be modified.