Deseret Evening News | 1910-06-23 | Page 1 | Sustains Beef Trust Demurrer

SUSTAINS BEEF TRUST DEMURRER Judge Landis Held That l ment Failed to Show Offense In Last Three Years NEW GRAND GRAW JURY ORDERED I To I Ill h 1 ii I It I 1 ii Hour r I lr r Idi lice U Wih sl Ith I Ii hl to tim t ii I ti g Valid Vii lId lIdI I imil hI Chicago June Juns 23 I In iii 11 tIm til Status court here hore to 10 today tIny day ray thin tl demurrer of ot the ro co 0 called her lef hunt truit to 10 lie Indictment a 0 combination In lii II ot ut II trudo A new I JalI grand nJ Jury JulY was 11 to 10 lenew ti of uC the ho pack pk lug lu The File he drawn on Oil 01 evidence d by hay h agents Igenta of lt if the Iho federal guY 10 1105 ut W the thc National company and lIe Its ten III ary itry ry 0 I charging violation or of this the antitrust antii rust law last and tIon tono were el I 1 when Judge JUllo 1111 tile tl that tho ho Indictment would I ul runt stand but bul tho the demonstration tIA to lu a Ru n end nd when Ihen tho the court CO added enl CoIl nil a n special pelal grand Jury venire of ot 75 7 men for July Jil H II PhIe body bly will wi lio ho 0 ordered to 10 hear he testimony with wih a n view to finding valid Indictments the com companies rm hUt nice The lite h Indictment quashed today loda tulle failed to show In 10 the Ih view Ip of ot Judge JUllo that lint arty any on offense ren had been ben committed lm mit within the lat last three Ihre years Mr It I did ld riot not show that during tile this statutory period 1 the defendants had lied been engaged I hi n Interstate commerce The Th general B state mont lint the picking companies en 01 In a n combination In restraint of t trade the court curt declared to b be n a I conclusion Judge Iun l said Id Tho court urt Is t li not riOt clothed with au RU authority IU thorl to supply entirely by b the th of ot w I so fundament fundamental al iii an clement of or the tho offense offence