New-York tribune., 1922-01-31
50 Indicted as
Trust ViOlatOrs
b Heating Ring
Bals Are Returned Against
81 Companies. "a Indi-
viduals, and 5 Are Named
Separately for Conspiracy
|s Labor Men Included
Hesrick, Now in Prison, Is
Cited Again: Jury Acts on
lockwood Probe Evidence

,,A,akments charging violation Of the
~. antitrust law against twenty-one
..-,.,.hons and twenty-four individu
=. ard against Ave individuals for
...,r,raev we're handed up yesterday
sr tn. grand jury of the Supreme
Court.
III. true bills resulted from the long
..d sensational investigation Of the
In.tvood committee into the alleged
| .,rbiue in the heating and ventilating
.ns,r.ss in this city. year ago
,rryious inqusitorial body declined to
M, SIMILAR indictments against che
ans defendants.
Asong those charged with conspiracy
n Yesterdays indictments was John
| r Hettrick, "oode Of practice" lawyer,
| yho expects TO be parolcd from the
| .ritentiary on Welfare Island, Feb
| ;cgy "a. In the previous investiga-
tj,s Hettrick was indicted for con-
sp,racy in connection with the bid
rigging methods exposed by the Lock
wood committee and was sentenced
| 70 serve an indeterminate term, which
va fixed by the Parole Commission
At one year.
Three Labor Men Named
Besides reindicting Hettrick. the
rand jury included three labor men in
lie conspiracy bills. They were John
y Imhof, Martin McCue and Louis
Cabhardt, business agents Of Local 63S
Of the United Association of Plumbers
sud Stea mfitters. Charles G.. Wither-
,von. director of Baker, Smith &
te. SIS Greenwich Street, also was
charged with conspiracy.
Deputy Attorney General Timothy N
| phitfer, aid to Samuel Untermyer,
counsel for the Lockwood committee,
pwsented the case to the grand jury,
0. which Robert Appleton is foreman.
The indictments were returned before
Justice lsdor Wasservogel in the
Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court.
The defendants will be arraigned to-
dy. They were notified through their
counsel they would be required to fur
nish bail Of $500 each.
While tho indictments were sealed
|. became known they were based
rpcn the testimony taken before the
lockwood committee, which alleged the
deiendants had entered into an agree
r.rt to fix prices and prevent compe-
tition in restraint of trade. The anti
tr.N law violation is alleged to have
onurred in June, 1920. and the con-
rsacy in February, 1921.
II Corporations Indicted
ehsged with violation of the anti
tnt law were:
Amirall & Co., Inc, Dominick
Street; Julian Almirali: Baker, Smith
GO, 576 Greenwich Street; Child &
E~tt Co., 112 Wooster Street; Ernest
z Child; A. 3. Barr & Co. 80 East
FMy second Street; Robert j. Currie:
Cilshan-Kingsley Co., Inc, 343 West
Nsy-second Street; Edwin M. Kings
E; Raisler Heating Company, Inc, 1923
ksterdam Avenue; Samuel Raislcr;
louis K. Berman; Refs & O'Donovan,
he. 213 West Twenty eighth Street;
VILLAGE NJ. Hyman, John c. Williams,
he, 233 Broadway; John c. Williams;
v. L. Fleisher & Co., Inc, 81 Union
tusre Walter l.. Fleishor; Johnston
Hating Company, Inc, 131 East Twen-
.g.sixth Street; Wolff & Munier, Inc,
" Lexington Avenue; Richard A.
Tds. Lasettc & Murphy. Inc, 23S
West 10Sth Street; Jeremiah A. Muir
ply; ". G. Cornall. Fourth Avenue and
esventeenth Street; Edward Slosson;
I Miller & Brady, Inc. 21O East Thirty
eighth Street; Robert B. Miller; Nc
9ulllin Chafe, Inc, 1913 Eleventh
Avenue; Walter E. Chafe; w. X.
Moran Inc. 4o5 Lexington Avenue;
| wells & Newton Co., Inc, 292 Avenue
l 7 H.
,!unro, Inc, Grand Central Terminal;
7. Rutzler Company, Inc, 4o4 East
Forty-ninth Street: Adams, Britz &
20, Inc, l76l Park Avenue; Edward C.
T' T.'sz' T. G. Voolfolk e. Co., is West
| lh'rty-eighth Street,; Joseph G.
Ssoghegan, Leonard G. Kirk, Louise
u ~ raul, William L. Olvany. 100 Charles
IIreet; Daniel J. Rice, 4O5 Lexington
nnenw; Albert NJ. Chambers, 222 East
r;c1'hrst Street; William K. Nc
A'eVer, 247 West Thirteenth Street.
Brother of Jury Foreman
% susn Aimlrall is a brother of Ray
wv Naao r. Ainlirall, who was foreman OF
w. w. extraordinary grand jury which in
y,"sgated the crime situation in New
Raymond Almirall. according to
.." ra.'es a brodek, of Rector Street,
ssase Tor several of the indicted
4rrss' mas no connection with Almirall
a, ~ ~ 'he indicted firm In a comment
| n, 'Ie U 'nolctnlents returned yesterday,
~; Srcdek said:
49,! .ae SpleseIberg grand jury invcsti-
,s.;s.. u ana threw out this same charge
lus' ls.s the firms and individuals which
"psesent The heating and ventilat-
people are not guilty Of the same
/ III ,yJg'es for which the plumbers were
,..svA sna convicted. They got into the
M, ,"ned hetrick scheme late and got