Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-12-13 | Page 6 | Cotton Brokers Are Fined $4000 Each

II COTTON BROKERS ARE fiNED 4 EACH NEW TORi Dee Dec of oC 1000 each were Imposed In the federal dIstrIct district dIs- dIs court today upon Eugene Scales or of Texas Teus Frank Ha Hayne ne and William Brown Bro ot of New Orleans Morris Rothchild of oC Mississippi Mis- Mis and Col Robert Hobert M. M Thompson son or of orthis this city on their plea ot of nolo to a charge of cornering the cotton crop of 1309 In in vl violation of the Sherman antitrust anti antl- trust law James A A. Patten of oC Chicago had previously been Med fined a similar amount In the same case The government alleges that the defendants defendants de- de had entered into a conspiracy to control the raw v cotton production of the country countr at an estimated profit to themselves them them- selves o of