Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-26 | Page 9 | Meat Companies and Men Indicted

r MEAT EAT COMPANiES i AND AD MEN ME INDICTED ii i it l t ti Are Said to Have H eve Conspired to Limit the Supply ot of Beef l And Poultry r SOME BIG NAMES AMONG THEM THEMi i Two 10 Three Swirls 10 rises rind III Others Other Iu III the List New York Fob boot boef trust of the United States s six j great packing companies and 21 pack packers packs ers s seI several ral of than multimillionaires I f was WIS b by IL a grand jur jury In Hud Hudson son county New free Jersey toda today charged 1 with whit conspiracy in the tho supply of meat and 1 I TLe indictment Is drawn under i laws Jaws of New Jero which provides I upon conviction a maximum penalty pf pC three years In the penitentiary penitential n a 1000 J lino or both hoth The offense Is able which means practically that tho meat barons brons either must successfully resist or come to Jorsey Jerse City for Cor trial Pierre Pierro Carron Calen public prosecutor of oC Hudson county said tonight that hu he would forthwith notify the defendants of oC their and would he be read ready to force ht ta gash h case whore where the concerned Is not willing willingto to face aco the trial The defendants as named follow CORPORATIONS The National Packing company compan Armour Co Swift Co CoMor Mor Is Co Packing Co CoG CoG G H Hammond Co J Ogden Armour A Watson atson Armour Louis I 1 Swift Edward I Swift Charles harleS H Swirl Edward Morris Ira 1 N Arthur lecker dward Tilden I L A Carton Thomas Thomaz J Connell Conners F J A Fowler J L H Heyman James E Jr George J Edwards Fredrick B Cooper D 1 Harwell Hartwell HenT Henn n B Darlington A A Fuller Lemuel C Patterson The indictment which bristles In Its arraignment o of the men named also refers to divers others as being responsible res The latter however are arc not specified The list of names It will be e seen represents the backbone of the great gleat packing lacking industry of oC the country con containing containing as It does docs two Armours Swifts anti and two most ot of them residents of oC Chicago Their Indictment brings to a climax the first concerted effort in the east to 11 fix responsibility for Cor the prevailing high h price of food Jerse Jersey Cit City as a center where the tho packing companies of the west vest maintain vast storehouses storehouse lu In which thou thousands ands of pounds ot of meat