PACKERS ACQUITTED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 74, 27 March 1912, Page 7

PACKERS ACQUITTED.

. AFTER MANY YEARS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 27, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, 26th March. At Chicago, ten meat packers who were tried on charges of violation of the criminal sections of the Sherman AntiTrust Law, were found not guilty, after the jury had deliberated for nineteen hours. The case lasted several years. DEVIOUS LEGAL WAYS. After eight years of devious travel in the ways of grand juries and special pleaß, the cases of the ten Chicago meat packers; indicted for alleged violation of the criminal provisions of the- fcsherman anti-trust law, reach trial on the 6th December last year. The packers are: > J. Ogden Armour, president of Armour and Co. Louis F. Swift, president of Swift and Co. Edward E. Swift, vice-president of Swift and Co. Charles F. Swift, director of Swift and Co. _ Edward Tilden, president of the National Packing Company, which the Government contends is the illegal corpora* tion — the trust. Arthur Meeker, general manager of Armour and Co. Edward Morris, president of Morris and Co. Francis A. Fowler, director of Swift and Co. Thomas J.. Connors, superintendent of Armour and Co. Louis H. Heyman, manager of Morris and Co.