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Show TRIAS (IF ' One of the Directors of t the Merger on Wit-- ness Stand IJKhicago, Jan. 5. Arthur Colby to-33$w to-33$w was called as tho governments fourth witness in the trial of the ten jidgkers. He came to Chicago in 1903 hndi. obtained employment with the National Packing company as assistant assist-ant secretary. Two cars later ho S'as decked a director' and made as-Jstant as-Jstant treasurer. j "Aro ,ou familiar with the business .of . the National Packing companj 9" .tfsjted District Attorney James II. "Wjilkcrson. i'Only with the office and accounting account-ing end of the business,' replied Colby, Col-by, Ayho then gave a list of the subsidiary sub-sidiary companies operated, by the National Packing company as follows: G. H. Hammond & Co. Hammond Packing company. ' Anglo-American Provision company. com-pany. ' i Omaha Packing' company. United Dressed Beef company. St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Provi-sion company. eiy York Butchers Dreesed Beef coinpan.y. "Western Packing company. Colorado Packing company. Huddy Brothers. Plankington Packing company. Smith Brothers. Handy Brothers Mr. "Wilkersou introduced in evidence evi-dence tho minutes of the first meet-SngVof meet-SngVof the National Packing company, held March 18, 1903, in Jersey City. The by-laws of the corporation were read by counsel for the government govern-ment It was organized under tho lav-s.of New Jersey with, a capital stoMc of $15,000,000 to "engage in the packing business and such other enterprises en-terprises or industries as this corporation corpo-ration may deem advisable.7 -"-provision created an executive board with authority to exorcise all thepowers of the board of directors. Details of the purchase of the thirteen thir-teen independent packing companies for 815,000.000 which formed the nu-cleub nu-cleub of the National Packing com-panyl com-panyl were given In a resolution adopted by tbe directors at their first meeting. " The contracts relating to the , ransfor" of the properties tspeci-fleti-hat each plallt was Jto bo operated operat-ed independently under the old name. |