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Show AN IMPORTANT CASE. A National Casli Register Action on in New York. New York, July 20. The case of Edward B. Hess of Ohio, a director "of the National Cash Register company, and who was recently re-cently arrested in this city on an indictment found against the officials of that company by the United States grand jury at Boston, charging them with entering into a combination combin-ation to ruin the business character of four concerns engaged in manufacturing cash registers, is before United States Commissioner Commis-sioner Shields today. The indictment alleges that defendants combined against the Kruse Cash Register eompany of this city; the Lamon Consolidated Consolidat-ed Store Service company of Newark, N. J. ; the Union Cash Register company of Trenton, Tren-ton, N. J.; and the Elberon Cash Indicator and Recorder company of Boston, Mass. It is charged that tha National Cash Register Regis-ter company, on Dec. 15th last, entered into a combination to restrain, ruin and destroy the trade of the companies by enticing away from the Lamson company its agents and employees. The 'National Cash Register company, it & ,UtA-Va kill V UIJ 1 . i .... v . against the officers and agents of the Lamson Lam-son company, and employed detectives who followed and annoyed their sellinsr agents. ' Inducements are alleged to have been offered whereby its employes and agents were made to break contracts of service with the Lamson people. Individuals secretly se-cretly employed by. the National Cash Register Reg-ister company were made to obtain employment employ-ment with the Lamson company for the purpose of obtaining possession of the lat-ter's lat-ter's trade secrets, which were communicated communi-cated to the National people. Another charge is that the National company com-pany caused the Kruse, Lamson and Boston concerns much annoyance by inducing purchasers pur-chasers of their machines to discontinue their use and refrain from buyinff through threats that suits would be brought against them for infringement of patents. |