Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — BIG PACKERS ARE INDICTED BY JURY [ARTICLE]

BIG PACKERS ARE INDICTED BY JURY

Directors of National Packing Co. Hit by Investigation. ARE CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY Indictments Are to Be Handed to Supreme Court Justice Francis J. Swayze Next Wednesday—lncorporated March 18, 1903. The grand jury of Hudson county, New Jersey, which is sitting in Jersey City, voted indictments against the drectors of the National Packing Company as individuals with the exception of one member of the directorate. They are charged with conspiracy in that they kept foodstuffs in cold storage with the purpose of raising the price. The indictments are to be handed up to Supreme Court Justice Francis J. Swayze. The directors of the Natonal Packing company, according to published records, are J Ogden Armour, L. F. Swift, Edward Morris, E. F. Swift, Ira N. Morris, Arthur Meeker. Edward Tilden, T. J. Connors, L. A Carton, K. K. McLaren, T. E Wilson, C. H. Swift, L. H. Heyman. Samuel McRoberts, F. A. Fowler, A. W. Armour. The exempted mcniber of the directorate is Kenneth K. McLaurin, treasurer of the Corporation Trust company of New Jersey, an incorporating agency, with offices at 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City. The National Packing company was Incorporated in New Jersey, March 18, 1903, and it owns the captal stocks of the following companies engaged in the business of packing meat products: "The Fowler Packing company, the St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision company, the Fowler Canadian Company, Limited, Fowler Brothers, Llmt ited, the Hammond Packing company, the Q. H Hammond company, the Anglo-American Provision company and the United Dressed Beef company. Its capital stock was 115,000,000.