New-York tribune., 1921-05-26
iO More Builders Who
Pleaded Guilty Fined
Judge Refuses to Give Prison
Sentences. Assailing Those
Wh0 Try 10 Influence Court

FINES amounting to $25,t50 were
imposed yesterday on ten individuals
ana nine corporations, members of the
association of Dealers in Masons
buliding Materials. by Justice Vernon
M. Davis, in the Criminal Branch of
the Supreme Court. All had pleaded
guilty to indictments charging viola.
| tlon of the Donnelly antitrust act.
Before announcing the sentence
Justice Davis took occasion to criticize
the private interests of those who
would like TO see some other sentence
imposed The court announced that
| it would impose the sentence "notwith-
standing the public effort made by Ger
tain individuals improperly and
| unlawful1y to influence the action of
the court in these sentences while the
court had them under consideration. y
Samuel untermyer, counsel for the
Lockwood Committee, recently pro
tested against the light sentences meted
out to such offenders.
The individuals who paid fines rang
ing from $500 TO $4b0 are James A.
Ames, of 26ll Sedgwick Avenue. the
Bronx. $450; Andrew Brislin, of 1901
Hillside Avenue, Richmond Hill. $3.50;
John Wilson. 456 Fourteenth Street,
Brooklyn, $500; Cornelius Mcclure,
1856 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, $3.50;
Audlsy Clarke, II Schermerhorn Street,
Brooklyn, $3.50; Frank d. Craemer,
Bellnord Apartments, Manhattan, $400;
Stephen V, Duffy, 446 Seventy-sixth
Street, Brooklyn, $3.50; Francis v.
Duffy, 433 Seventyffth Street, Brook
lyn, $3.50; Maillard M. Canda, Garden
City. L. l., $3.50, and Waiter c. Howe,
128 Milton Street, Brooklyn, $500.
The corporations which paid fines
ranging from $500 to $4,000 are H. W.
Bell & Co, $500; Brshn Company,
$1,000; Brooklyn Building Supply
Company, $4,000; Burrough Building
Material Company. $2,5oo; Audley
Craemer Company, Inc, $4,000; j. p.
Duffy Company, $4,000; G.. r, Laymond
& Co, 81 900 and the Gustave Raider
Company, $4,000.
All were indicted as a result OF the
action of the Lockwood Committee in
lnve stigating the housing situation in
this city. Others have paid fines
amounting to $4,000, The total thus
far paid in fines amounts to S99.l5O.
Justice Davis before announcing the
fines said:
I'm these cases, as in others which
were brought before the court, the pre-
siding judge has made q thorough ex-
animation of all the evidence submitted
to the court against the defendants and
in their behalf, and the conclusion
formed is based upon that evidence
and the court now proposes to impose
the sentence which it conscientiously
believes ought to be imposed. uninau-
enced absolutely by the private inter
ests Of those who would like to see
some other sentence imposed and not
withstanding the public effort made bv
certain individuals, improperly and un-
lawfully, to influence the decision of
the court in these sentences while the
court had them under consideration.
"As to the other cases which were
handled by this court, these defendants
had submitted evidence of good char
,acter. They have pleaded guilty as I
have said, which entities them to great
consideration under the practice and
precedents Of this court. | have made
a thorough examination of the accounts
submitted to me, submitted under oath.
and can fad no evidence that these
defendants or the others have been
guilty Of profiteering, nor does it ap-
pear that they have made excessive
protts as a result of their criminal
combination"