Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — MORE CLOTHING PROFITEERS [ARTICLE]

MORE CLOTHING PROFITEERS

Utica, N. Y., Firm Fined $55,000 In Federal Court Wednesday. The John A. Roberts company of Utica, N. Y., dealing In clothing, was Wednesday fined by Judge Harland of the federal court in the sum of $55,000 for profiteering. In imposing the fine, the heaviest the law would permit, Judge Harland said: “I believe that convicted profiteers should be sent to Jail. That would do more than anything else to impress the merchants who ar-s doing business that they must confine themselves to fair and reasonable profits. “But the defendants being a corporation in this case,” said the “there can be no prison sentence. I believe It is plainly the duty' of the court to Impose the maximum sentence, which is $5,006 on oach count, or a total of $55,000, and such is the sentence of this court.” The sales on which the indictment was based wdre as follows: A dress bought for $16.75,' sold for $35; a dress bought for $8.50, sold for $18.50; a woman’s suit bought for $26.50, sold for $55; a skirt bought for SB, sold for $18.50; a coat bought for $7.50, sold for $18.50; a coat bought for $37.50, sold for $75; a coat bought for $27.50, sold for $55; a fur coat bought for $125, sold for $250; a scarf bought for $6.50, sold for $25.