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Show INDICT ALLEGED W TRUST PEOPLE NEW YORK. Jnn Hth Th federal grand jury lata yesterday returned nine indictments against that number of pool alleged to be operatiag a th so ealled wir trust. Among some of th prominent individuals indi-viduals named as olneera of the eom-panie eom-panie composing th alleged pools sre th following: rraak J. Gould, president of th Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works of Virginia; Vir-ginia; Herbert Batterle, Habershaw Wir company; William P. falmot. president f th American Steel and Wire company, Charles P. Brooker, vice president Aasoaia Bras and Topper eompany and a member of tbe Republican Repub-lican national committee from Connecticut; Connecti-cut; Hsnrv U. 8toddard. president of th Trenton Iron company; Krskin Hewitt, vie president of t"he Trenton Iron company, Frank N. Phillip, preai-dent preai-dent of tha American Electrical works, and Ferdinand W. Roebling of th John Roehling Sons Co. Th above individual indi-vidual wr indieted this afternoon. Th companies indicted ar: The Bar Copper Wir asaoeiatioa, th Rubber Covered Wir association, the Wir Hope Msnufaeturera association, associa-tion, the Iead Encased Buhner Cabio association, the Fine Magnet Wire asso-riation. asso-riation. th I'ndergr.mnd Power Cabl aasoeiatioa. th Horseshoe Manufacturers' Manufactur-ers' association, the Telephone cable association aad the Weather-Proof and Magnet Wire association. j Onlv two of the associations named ; are subsidiaries of the United States Sieel corporation, namely, the Trenton I Iron .worka and th American 8teel and: Wir company. ! The offense with which they ar charged is unlswful combination in j restraint of trad ia wire productl in, violstioa of the anti-trust law. Herbert Aatterle ia a son-in-law of J. P Morgan and Frank (l.mld ia th i well-known inancial and street railway magnate. |