The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-19

when I last saw him. Wagon was
still there when | left. Abe Levine
was still there. Perren went fishing
about o'clock. Bloch had not left
when / did. The cross examination
failed to shake him.
John Betting said he had never been
in the building of the Chicago Bedding
company He could not say what the
building vas worth. He was therefore
withdrawn. Then it appearing chat
two of the states witnesses were absent
the court adjourned until 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
Wednesdays Session.
When court opened at 9:15 o'clock
the jury was polled and Attorney Fos-
ter notified the court that Attorney
Seaman and Defendant jacobson had
gone to Chicago and were little late
in arriving. Proceedings consequently
had to be held open for them. When
Seaman entered he said lie had got up
at midnight to get here, but the train
was late.
Philip Wade was called, but he did
not respond, so the sheriff was ordered
to get him.
Josephq Williams was called. He
said be, had built the plant of the Chi
cago Bedding company, and considered
| it worth about SIS, 900. He was called
on as an appraiser of the value OF the
plant after the fire. He included in
the figure mentioned the burned build
ing, the foundations and smoke stack.
He considered the rag warehouse
worth about 500.
Harry Brick was sworn. He said he
was employed for some time before the
fire as packer in the shipping room
He said he knew all about the amount
of manufactured stock in the factory.
There were 215 cotton toy mattresses.
They were worth about $1.25 apiece.
There were not 100b outside ofthese
mattresses. All were worth about $3.50.
No beds there above this grade. There
were several grades made there that
were better. One was the spring edge
kind. There might have been fifty
pairs of pillows there. He made out a
list after the fire as near as he could OF
all the stuff there was in the factory.
The valuation, leaving out the feath-
ers, was $3,337.57. Then he took a
blue print of the departments of the
factory and detailed to thejury the diff
ferent things in the factory and their
location and value. Perren and Bloch
were both at the factory prior to the
fire. Perren was not doing anything
and Bloch was overlooking some ship
ments. They were shipping out two
bales of mattresses, one case OF muslin
and some spring beds One of the beds
was torn and Perren said it need not
be shipped until Monday. Bloch said
to ship it. He was going to use it and
could sew it himself. 1t was tied up
and taken to the depot. He stayed
there until Bloch. left and left with
him. He did not see anything put into
the vault There were some COM
pressed feathers shipped out in the
forenoon. There were $50 pairs
shipped. The muslin shipped out was
in the original package. 1t was shipped
to Plotkin. Some touches went
out that morning and part of a
car load of Irvine. The Irvine
was shipped to Pittsburg. There
were some leather tufts shipped.
Some corduroy and other stuff
was bundled up. This stuff was
shipped to S. Bloch, S. Chicago. Seven
hair beds we're shipped to the West
Side auction house, Chicago. He said
he heard .Perren say he would not snip
those beds there. Would not realize
on them. Bloch said they would lose
nothing so he did them up and shipped
them. There were a lot of wooden
buckets brought in. There must have
been a dozen Of them on Saturday.
There were four dozen brought in be-
fore sometime during the week. There
was step ladder brought in Saturday
morning. 1t was a ten foot ladder.
Has seen Robinson and RoSenoW. Saw
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time before he left. He was busy in
the shipping room when he came in.
Didn't see the horse and wagon. Bloch
and Perren and Pagel were all there.
Had seen Robinson about a week before
around the factory. This was just
about a week before. He was going
around looking at things. Both Per-
rem and Bloch were there, too. Robin
son was there the greater part of one
day. Did not notice that he talked
with Bloch. Perren was about the
factory and Robinson was with him.
Mrs. Perren came over after her hus-
band. He told Perren she was wait
ing. The two men were in the feather
room. Perren said he was not coming
down to supper right away, and would
not be home until Z o'clock. He had
been in Pittsburg and had asked if
there was Such q cOmOanV as the Pitts