AMERICAN ANTI-TRUST LAWS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13653, 19 February 1913, Page 5

AMERICAN ANTI-TRUST LAWS.

COMPANY* OFFICIALS IMPRIS-

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(Received Fob. 18, 9.15 p.m.)

Washington, Feb. 18

Nineteen ( officials of the . National Cash Register Company were sentenced to short periods of imprisonment for a breach of the anti-trust law. The president, Patterson, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment.. The judge attacked the defendants' methods vigorously. Ho said millions of dollars could be made legitimately-, but that was not sufficient for tho officials of the

company.