| Show WANTS THE WATCH TRUST INVESTIGATED Washington May 3 Charles 13 l I Keanu of at New IW York president pre of oI o th Watch Dealers D 1 lf lon tion today 1 with ll I t l lIty Atty tty Ity Purely Purdy m tin lon lion which the department Is 18 making mo kilo the methods of ot the tho l watch wath trust Mr AJr Keene presented to o Mr Mt 11 Jurdy Ill Id he h Bald evidence con cont t the limn th operations of nr the watch trust lust Ito Ho asserted lI tint that Aurl Ameri anU watches could bo p In n various countries formuck for much muck 1 lees than thull they IhlY could bo ho bought boughtIn In thin country c and that the alleged watch trust sold watches to 10 foreign dealers nt IU n a t much less leBI price than limn they thuy quoted punted to tn American dealers deniers He lie 11 ex fX exhibited watches which h he had abroad for K less than timan I In could buy hu them In this country Mr III also called at tho white While whiteHouse otte House today day and an 1 offered to President i Roosevelt Hoos Roosevelt vell u IL wa watch ch with wl h an a n movement and American ease case which ti he ho had ft 1 t n laN id In England g a front from n a 1 thither denIer who had paid 1 the tho alleged watch dust JM b 13 for Cot It Tho rho watch he said would cost an 1111 American dealer US 8 Tho The watch was us tie IL hawing having b hoen boen n pi presented to President an as u a demonstration of at the tho methods method methods of ot ottile tile the American watch trust The rime ores sl dent declined lI to accept accent t the tho gift Later Inter In the day Mr Air Keeno sent aunt the watch lt 11 to tl the president nt with n IL letter urging him to 10 accept It and saying You Vou will find engraved on this like watch In as liS new f w II words lit as a possible In 11 Indisputable disputable evidence III of or the watch trust rust methods which show discrimination against l the tho American dealer In favor favol of or the foreigner In a 11 letter lettI which Mr MI Koene Koen left ItI with the th president he wild strict he purchased American merll watches in III Europe I In sub substantial quantities and brought them back to 10 few sew W York to undersell the Ih market Because of It this he ho said hint the trust In Is 1 1 trying to stop my supply In Europe l In pt u a way that 1 I think thin is In Indirect direct violation of ot the Sherman anti antitrust antitrust trust net act ac I J think I 1 have sufficient evi evl evidence dunce dence to convict the trust criminally for lor con conspiring with English J dealers 18 to prohibit my agents from executing my orders for far the tho purchase huso of ot American watches In the tile market markl |
