New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
SUM UP TESTIMONY
 IN NEW HAVEN CASE
Government and Defense Refresh
 Memories Of Jurors

New York, Jan. 3.-Counsel at the trial of William Rockefeller and ten other former directors of the New York New Haven and Hartford Rail- road, charged with criminal violation of the Sherman law, began summing up the testimony for the jury today.
 Frank M Swacker opened for the government. He was followed by two other government attorneys before the defense begun it's side of the case and the entire argument was expected to occupy foar days
 RcffeShcS Jurors Memories.
 Mr. Swacker first defined the nature of conspiracy as construed under the } Sherman law and refreshed the jurors memories on the charges in the in dictment.
 The federal attorney described as distinct violations of the act' the so- called tripartite agreement between the New Haven, the New York Central and the New York and Harlem, which excluded other railroads from enter !, ing New York, and the Sound Lines agreement, which fixed steamboat rates between New York and New England ports. He then reviewed in chronological order the various ac- quisitions of the New Haven road, eX- plaining how each, as the government contends, had resulted in a suppress sion of competition. s.. "Harassing Litigation"
 MT. Swacker laid special emphasis and New England Railroad, dwelling on the "Harassing litigation" and other methods testified to by Charles , s. Mellen, which the New Haven is charged with using to interfere with that road.
 You remember that Mr. Mellen tes- tlhed, continued the attorney, that | he had never known two railroads ] engaged in such fierce competition 1 as the New Haven and the New Eng land. When the grade jury began it's first investigation, MT. Mellen was afraid of this New England acquisi- tlon! He knew it was the rankest | violation of the Sherman Law
 Mellen had regarded the rate 1 agreement between the New Haven 1 and the Joy Steamship Co., as an- other fragrant violation of the law. so fragrant that he recommended the acquisition of the line as the lesser of the two evils,' said MT. Swacker. Central New England
 tIaklng up the purchase of the { Central New England, the attorney called attention to the letter written l by Mellen to the New Haven, while . he was president of the Northern Pa cihc, in which he advised the acaui sition Of. the Central, If you want to maintain. your monopoly"
 This said MT. Swacker. "ho l wrote as a friend of the New Haven. as one familiar with conditions in New England"
 "Stock Watering"
 The attorney described as "stoc1z watering the transactions which re- ~sulted in the consolidation of the New Haven trolley lines in Connecti cut into the Consolidated Railway Co. the transfer to it of the New Haven's steamship lines at a valua- ton of s20,000, ,000 and the exchanpe or the company's stock for New Ha- wen stock
 The defendants are not charged Wlth stock watering he said but this is what it was'' ...-..
 Billiard Transaction,
 The Boston and Maine acquisition and The nalodorous Billiard transac- uons' MT. Swacker said were char- acterlzed by bad faith to the corr monWea1th of Massa chusetts." =,
 The whole spirit of the Neu- IJo ven from the very beginning. ha 1 said has been: The law is . +rie>1 when it is in the way of doine wt,r we want to do' D