Show M bl L E NOT DEfiNE ANY CRIME E Chicago PacKers rs File Demurrers Demurrers De AttacKing n Law Lawand and Indictments CHICAGO April 1 Demurrers i.-Demurrers Demurrers I. filed by the indicted Chicago meat packers today before Judge Carpenter in the United Sta States s district court set up the tho contention that tho auti trust anti trust act o of 1890 under which all nIl monopoly suits arc broll brought ht in in- inthe the United States does not create an any crime Their basis for fot this contention is That tho the statute docs does not define defino any offense a against ain t. t the United States with certainty to inform rm tho defendants of tho the nature of th the thC crime or or offense with which they are aro charged and the same slIu in so BO far as it undertakes to create creato a crime is in in- alid alil void and contrary to the United States constitution v The Tho demurrer along this same saine line linc says II The Tho Tho of oC the tile offense description contained con tamed in this section on which thoin thein is based is IB not ono onu by which tho the defendants were or able ablo to knoW knois in m advance whether the the- acts were tero criminal or not The Tho indictments also aro are attacked as of fault faulty fauty preparation |