Denounce New Haven Methods Government Attorneys Picture Directors Direc-tors as Men Who Consider Law a Trifle Now York, Jnn. 2 The eleven former for-mer directors of tho Now York, Now Haven &. Hartford railroad on trial under the Sherman law wero pictured pictur-ed by government counsel In Bumming Bum-ming up the testimony before tho Jury today ns men who had regarded tiio law as n trllle, when It stood In tho way of their alleged design to monopolize tho transportation trnlllo of New England. Attorneys Swncker, Stevenson nnd Osborno took turns In their denunciation denuncia-tion of the methods used by the Now Haven, ns they viewed them In suppressing sup-pressing and buying In Its compctl tors. Mr. Osborno pictured tho Into J. P. Morgan as tno man who conceived con-ceived the alleged plan to dominate tho traffic of Now England. Ho compared com-pared the Now Haven to tho Northern North-ern Securities company, tho holding company for tho Northern Pacific nnd Great Northern railways which was dissolved by a decree of tho su premo court of the United Stntes. No ono except Morgan and William Rockefeller knew more nbout tho purposes of the New Haven than Chnrlcs S. Mellon, declnred Mr. Osborno, Os-borno, and Mellen had written a letter let-ter which showed that tho maintenance mainten-ance of a monopoly at any cost was tho p'atform of tho Now Haven. This was tho letter that Mellen, while president of tho Northern Pacific sent to John M. Hall, president of tho New Haven In 1002 nnd In which he said: "Tho New Haven has always been prone to underestimate the va'uo of a competitor. It Is unfortunato In being so rich It can pay tho price for Its acquisitions. I think It wlso when so much depends on the maintenance main-tenance of your monopoly not tb tako In what you must eventually havo." "That was tho platform of tho Now Haven expressed In black nnd white," ho said, "and Mellen, knowing know-ing this design, was made president of tho road and went to work carrying carry-ing cut tho policy ho Bet forth In this letter." Mr. Osborno laid emphasis on tho high prices tho New Haven had paid for many of Its properties and cited tho Intercompany transactions that preceded tho acquisition of tho Boston Bos-ton & Maine ns stock watering which he described ns a brcncli of faith to tho stockholders.