Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-23 | Page 9 | Charged with Taking Rebates

CHARGED WITH TAKING REBATES Shoe 2nd Dry Goods Merchants May Be Arraigned. KANSAS CITT. June 23. Proceedings Proceed-ings may Tjo brought against the shoe. And dry goodsmerchants of St Louis, Omaha and Kansas City on a charge of accepting rebAtes'from railways secured se-cured for them by George L. Thomas, the New York freight broker, who. with his chief clerk, L. B. Taggart, la the Federal court here yesterday,, were fined and given A penitentiary sentence, . - - A. S. Van Valkenburgh. the District Attorney, Intimated that the matter, probably would be brought: to the attention at-tention of the grand Jury next falL Judge O. M. Spencer, general solicitor so-licitor for the Burlington, said today of the statement credited yesterday to Attorney-General Moody at Washington Washing-ton In discussing, the Kansas City convictions:' con-victions:' "If the -statement . of the Attorney-General Attorney-General is true. It will be very embarrassing embar-rassing to try future cases of this kind in Missouri and hare, the judgment rendered by the-Attorney-General. I refer particularly to the-. Attorney-General's Attorney-General's statement that 'after giving it careful consideration. 1 concluded that the extent of the discriminations practiced showed that it was a case where the sentence of Imprisonment was especially desirable, and I dlrect-ed-the District Attorney to urge on the court, in case of their conviction, the desirability of such a sentence.'" " Mr. Thomas and Mr. Taggart left today for their homes in New York.