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Show 1 ! HRST BREAK I IN BIG TRUST I President of New Haven Road Says He Will Sell Out Vessel Lines New Haven, Conn., Dec 4 The rim break in the New Haven monopoly mo-nopoly In New England came tonight, when Charles S. Mollcn. returning home after ho was held in $i0,000 In New York on his Indictment for violation of the criminal clause of the Sherman act, announced that the steamship lines of the railroad would ho sold Mellen'sald that unless the interstate inter-state commerce commission authorized author-ized his company to continue operation opera-tion of the lines they would he disposed dis-posed of within the coming year. Of course Mellen was aware that the interstate commerce commission would do no such thing. It was the fiYst sign of the dissolution disso-lution of the huge merger to control New England traffic. Following this may come announcement of the giving giv-ing up of the Boston & Maine and the trolley lines of the New England states, ejm By the sale of the steamship lines Mellen said the company would rid Itself of every steamship and every m steamship line, as well as the stock pj in several lines now held hv It. Sb New York, Dec. 24. "Clear that ( gangway!" 'ir'i WIth a crack of hls Savcl- delIv" t ered with such force that the loose J2J sleeves of the judicial robe of sol-'Z sol-'Z omn hlack fluttered as if In a breeze. gl Judge Charles M. Hough, in the :S criminal branch of the United States iTfl district court, this afternoon at 1 51 o'clock ordered deputy marshals to 3 make way for appearance before his ft bar of Charles S. Mellen, president M of tho New York. New Haven & fi Hartford railroad, and Edson J. Chamberlin, president of the Grand as j Trunk railroad of Canada, to enter ft formal pleas to tho federal grand rSa j : jury Indictments returned against ) them the day before, charging them iS fj with conspiring to violate the Sher-jeL Sher-jeL man anti-trust lav.'. htt Their co-defendant, Alfred W. Am- Smllhora of London, chairman of the flifl Grand Trunk board, was neither pres-M pres-M ont nor represented by counsel. kJi : The trial of Julian Hawthorne, the 11 nuthor; former Mayor Joslah Qulncy fftP oi Boston, and their associates, 4Jl charged with using the malls to de-3 de-3 fraud in promoting alleged fake mln-'& mln-'& ing schemes, was in progress when w President Mellen entered Judge jgeff Hough's courtroom at 10:45 o'clock, fifteen minutes before the hour agreed upon. It was exactly 1 o'clock when I President Chamberlain entered the courtroom. Judge Hough then dismissed the Hawthorne-Qulncy jury from the box for an hour in order to receive the pleas of the railroad men "Charles Mellen and Edson J. Chamberlain to the bar," rang out the voice of Clerk William Leary as soon as tho aisles had been cleared. With a half start President Mellen moved as If to rise and obey the command. Then he settled back in his chair and continued to beat a tattoo on tho top of hlB black derby hat. President Chamberlain, seated several feet away from the New Haven's head, rose mechanically to walk to the bar, but was stopped by a low murmur from one of his counsel coun-sel Frank L. Crawford of the sugar trust and Standard Oil legal forces, whispered to him. President Mellen was flanked by a big array of lawyers. Conspicuous among them wore E. O. Robbins, K chief counsel of the Now Haven; I El; William Greenough of Krauthoff, M) Harmon & Mathcwson, and John V. IK- H Crim. until recently an assistant JE United States attorney under Henry Beet' A Wise. 9 The lawyers, almost in unison, asked fM until January 20 to make the second W plea, but Judge Hough ruled that this Um must be done no later than the first lM Monday of next month. m Messrs. Lindsay and Crim then as - JHfe. ed that their clients be released witn-m witn-m out bail, citing several instances rc-Hf rc-Hf ccntly in which this had been done Ll with prominent men under criminal W; Indictment, notably the sugar trust of-M of-M fleers and directors. Judge Hougn II. "'indee0 Hough Mcortlnislr IIMd the 51; lawyers ;'X,,'UsutC" Smmtaloner 5fc ficc of United S tub J; tlieir fife ?. A-T?J UDltc" IX UdelitJ sr r" f0D0' it " "I sSd sssr-ffla&ss ;t lwere,sVKldnd the ranse of 1 ZJtt! S? bftgr Photon- U SirEaSeftino Mr. Me,- Hi "Both Mr. Cuam , u ou and len welcome J WJ "T0 lhat any I m absolutely dWprovo sboV(, I crime was '"Jj- for discontlnu-WSl discontlnu-WSl that tho rcalt"and Trunk exteu-K exteu-K ing work on the Grand x KT Sl0n to Pr0vIdfCrCkeL The financing Half K LT?0UrS Mf ll,e n,inoUB rates demanded demand-ed ror the money needed.'' nn |