Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-02-28 | Page 2 | Packers Held Weekly Sessions

00 PACKERS HELD WEEKLY SESSIONS CHICAGO. Feb 27. Evidence that nine of the ten defendants met ovor. Tuosday afternoon between 1907 and 1910 behind closed doors In the directors' di-rectors' room of the National Packing company, was given by two witnesses In the packers' trial todaj. Tho defendants de-fendants are. ,T Ogden Armour, Arthur Ar-thur Meeker, Thomas J. Connors, Edward Ed-ward Morris, Louis H. Heyraan, Lome F Swift, Edward F Swift, Charles H. Swift and Edward Tllden Francis Fran-cis A Fowler, and other witnesses, wero unable to Identify those having i; attended tho flesslons. i" Tho govornment contends that 1? was these meetings that tho indicted packers or "their representatives dls- k cussed Information regarding business . and agreed en shipping prices, mar- gins nnd a division of territory ia 1 violation of the criminal secton of the i- Shorman law . j Tho witnesses who told of the meet- j Ings wero Alonco N Bonn, assistant a, to Edward Tllden, president of the National Packing company, and A. E. ); Hays, who was employed as a clorfc J in the office a year ago.