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Show JUDGE IMPOSES A HEAVY FINE PITTSBURG, Nov. 11. Fifteen officers- and directors or the Imperial Vlndow Glass company, pleaded nolle contendre before Judge .las. S. Young in tho United States district court today to a vioathm or the. Sherman anti-trust act and each was lined $5U. At the nam timo a fine of 2.50 was Imposed on tho corporation Itself with costs Dissolution, of the combine b which the government alleged a monopoly in hand blown, window glass had been established aufi an Increase in prico from sixty to seventy per cent effected, effect-ed, will follow Immediately, it was announced by attorneys for the company. com-pany. The Imperial Window Glass com punv was indicted by the federal grand jurv hero In April with Imllud-ual Imllud-ual iurlictinentB agn.nst the ollicers r.!i 1 directors. Attorneys who addressed ad-dressed the court In behalf of the defendants, argued that since thero had been no intention on Ihe part of the company to violate the law, the penaltv should bo light. The" court severely scored tho defendants. de-fendants. "You aro not to draw the conclu-Fion," conclu-Fion," said Judge Young, "from Ihe fact that these fines are light, that there are rm such cases where Imprisonment Im-prisonment should be tho penalty." The court had. he said, taken into consideration that tho indicted directors direc-tors had assisted the government materially ma-terially in its investigation and had not prosecuted business after tho demurrer de-murrer was dismissed in October. |