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Show WM. ROCKEFELLER I ENTERH PLEA I Appears in Criminal Branch of U. S. Court and Says He Is ' Not a Conspirator. ! New York. Nov. 6 William Rocke- J feller. Standard Oil multi-millionaire, , rppeared today in the criminal branch ' of the United States district court I and entered a plea of not guilty to the Indictment charging him with con- I spiracy In connection with his acts as a former director of tbe New York N i w Haven and Hartford Railway company. He was placed under $5000 bond to insure his appearance for f trial. I Mr. Rockefeller appeared feeble as he walked unsteadily from bis automobile auto-mobile Into the building and to the elevator In a husky whisper, audible hardly ten feet away, Mr. Rockefeller said "not guilty" after the clerk had asked him how he desired tr plead. John A. Oarver, Mr. Rockefeller's attorney, at-torney, asked the court for the cus- ternary period of grace in which tho pleas might be withdrawn or changed a formal request that has been made in the case of each of the sixteen six-teen other former directors and directors di-rectors of the New Haven irho were Indicted last .Monday. Judge Foster replied that Mr. Rockefeller would be j given until November 23. tbe date , that has been fixed In the case of the other defendants. Of the twenty one men indicted, Mr Rockefeller was the seventeenth to plead. I For the first time In the memory of " w York newspaper photograph- j era, Mr Rockefeller consented to pose for R photograph Then he was driven driv-en to his home in Fifth avenue. J |