, 1872-10-12
The Report Of Professors Delafontaine
and Hirsh.
Letter from the Hon. Leonard
SWEET,

I QAF8 AkEO IE1d LN9 6l{It4Afi% ~ 11s AoE23Ae2eby
proposed to be publshed herewith; and the let
! ter OF Professor Dafafonteine, published IN THE
TRIBUNE Of this morning.
! LIDO not believe in the habit of trying Law
cases in newspapers. In twenty-tWo years pfac-
] tice, have never before deviated from the rule
/ of action this belief would induce
| To demonstrate who keeps clean IN Bridge
/ port, and who don't, would not incline me to 90
It in this case; nor would desire upon the part
| Of any one to lessen the merits OF Professors
| Hirsh and Delefontaine; nor any controversy as
] to what disinfectants are best The reason do
lit is because the charge is made that Turner
Shoeneman desired to whitewash themselves
and blacken their neighbors; because lntima-
| Of Health and other officials; and because what
! ever WAS done did myself or caused my clients
L to do, and Whatever Instructions wer6 given I
gave It is right, therefore, il there is any se-
rious responsibility in this matter, should take
| it myself.
! Having been employed by Turner and Messls.
| Ehoenenan i Co, to defend them in reference
| to the conduct Of these slaughter houses, ad-
yised that, in my opinion the prosecutions we're
direosed to the manner IN which the business
WIS done rather than to the business itself. I
] did this because. to my mind, it was self-evi-
dent no one could contemplate the destruction,
and tho driving away to rival cities, Of busi-
ness. which ia the third in Importance to the
city The idea OF indicting aud driving of the
| grain and lumber business Is much more reason
able. therefore told them to get some chero-
| lists and sec how the condition OF their estob+
! Ashnents could De improved PURSUANT TO thls
suggestion, went at an appointed t;na to their
plsces Of business. After waiting q half-hour,
Professors Hirsh and Delafontalne, whom met
| there for the f1at time, came.
! told them What We Eanted. Il was to aseer~
as ssen they could be, and if 80, to prove such
| fact By them upon the trial II, IN going
! through the places, they should gee anything
which could be improved, wanted them also to
xetsation between the chemist and ny clients,
that the atmosphere Of the establishment was
! to be ana1yzed, but not having much faith ln
| that proposal a. defence to the case, paid
little attention to it. Going through the estah-
Rsae4 Rss to make points On he % Board ef HetS spd
especially Dr.. Rauch% I explained to the gentle
! men especially that did not want any such con-
troyersles in my case.
Bridgeport, IS everybody knoTs, is tnn Of
substances. AZ E second meeting with these
gentlemen, At Aesars. Shoenenan Co g place,
I asked my clients to have the Healy Slough,
the various ditches and drains, and other offen-
made showing their location. These gentlemen
being there, it Was thought best to have them
ride about and do this IN the latter part Of the
afternoon remaining; SO air. Turner said he
The. object Of this was not to ascertain
whether anybody conducted their business well
III, much less to whitewash OF s1ander anyone;
much less to get any one in the newspapers;
I never thought Of dignifying our visit to
Bridgeport By areport. I Isupposed the question
was one Of ahovels. carts, and general washing,
rather than grave eVents to pass into history.
M Msa F Rfas ssd aae ress ny ysg fsas
something to their injury for publication. +
assured them there WAS not the stghtest found
alton for it. Il
Next, Professor Hirsh came to my Office with
his report, and read it. I supposed it was writ
ten up as matter ct form, aid wss at my SER
vice. I kne. ct no difficulty between him and
my clients sboat the cost Of it, and failed
to take, it and put it 1n a. pigeon;5ole.
wanted in my case, and nothing in its context
aturo. explained that my PURPOSE was not to
attack my clients neighbo1b, and T must confess
nut those paragraphs in to be hired to take them
out urder = threat OF puhlication
I also said that what Z did want. if te could
find it, was something to improve my clients
establisament. He thcn ssid he thought he
could do that, Al and bis plan explained vas to
saturat9 all the ofIal and animal matter
in soma chemical solution, which
would saye IL from otlor Will. being utilized, I
replied that, Wills that might be done With
pound Of meat in chemists laboratory, T re-
garded it az impracticehle in an establishment
where hundreds Of animals weze slaughtered
daily. Ths next heard of this report, found
it at ray breakfast table, in the Times.
Idonot wish to be urderstood in obiectiug to
Professor Hirsh or Delafontaine pitching into
the Board OF Health. or any one in Bridgeport
Neither is it personally Of my concern whether
they H1ite articles condemning establish
to rav r,onav fcr s1,c1, xSthirn<raI An 6sre
eoneern 1 % VIII Is. that % thev DO it On their own
hook: and' Theneger iheyy NE = easa r,,dar nv