Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-04
THE TERRY-BosHAN TRIAL.
Continued from Page One.)
one lot of filled sacks in the base
ment?"

one lot or nlieu Se1eh' IA NS
| ment?"
Il don't remember"
In explanation of the answer given
Yesterday that there was only one iot
put in the basement he said that ne
had spoken before he thought.
The district attorney asked him II ne
had talked over the testimony in re-
gard to the sacks with Mr.. Townsend,
the counsel. or any one else and the
witness replied that he had not.
Albert A. Williams of Waterville, the
| ianitor of the building which was cree
ted after the old building had been des-
| troved said that he locked all the
doors when he left the building at night
except on those nights when Mr.. Town
send, the bookkeeper or the pressman
were working late. 1t seldom hap
pened that there was any one in the
building when he LETT.
The pressman, James Walter Scrib-
ner, testified to the slowing paper
in rolls in the basement.
The inspectors had testified that the
200 filled sacks in the basement, were
behind rolls of paper.
The witness said that the rolls OF
paper were put oSCl III eAiC Aioi III va
ner of the basement, where the filed
sacks were, because the other portion
of the basement was damp. Usually
the paper was stored around the eleva-
tor
Mill Bertha A. Flagg, who was Miss
Freeman's assistant in the room
where the wrappers for sample copies
were addressed explained the work.
She said that about 10000 wrappers
were addressed outside of the building
every day. When they were returned
they were stamped Sample Copy,
by girls in the building.
The witness said on cross-eXamina-
ton that sometimes these wrappers
were left for several days without
being stamped.
Misses May f. Dyer, Eva Paikowski
and Ina NJ. Butler testified that they
were employed in stamping the wrappers
that came in from outside with the
words sample copies
Horace B. Whitehouse, a clerk in the
Waterville postoffice. who was the first
witness for the government, was put on
the stand by the defence to explain the
marking on the labels on sacks which
came from tlle sawyer W.
with magazines to several states.
The witness said that these sacks were
marked mixed on the label and that they
were worked" or distributed according
to states in the postoffice He explained
at length the method of handling this
class Of matter and of marking the Ia
bells on the sacks.
George w. Townsend, superintendent of
the Sawyer Publishing Co. was the next
witness called. Mr.. Townsend is the most
important witness for the defence SO far
The witness said that he had been in the
employ of the company Il years and had
charge over the writing, stencil, mailing
and mail opening departments.
The witness first described the manner
Of mailing from the time the orders are
received. All letters are opened and sort
ed and those containing subscriptions.
except renewals, were sent to the mail
order department.
Orders were sent to the premium de-
partment, where the orders called for
premiums and the subscription letters
were then sent to the writing depart
ment where the wrappers were address,
cd. The wrapper for the first copy sent
out or n new subscription is always sent
out with n written address. After that
the letter was sent to the stencil depart
ment. where 4 stencil was made of the
address. After describing the method of
making stencils and the manner Of mark
ing and filing them, the witness was ex-
amined in relation to the way the mag
azines We're mailed. He said that while
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copies first, that very often all the wrap
pers for these copies were not ready and
sample copies were sent out while wait
ing for more addressed wrappers for
subscribers.
The stenciled wrappers are used for
subscribers copies only, but some sub
scribers' copies are addressed by hand.
There are two classes of these written
addresses: Those of new subscribers and
those which came defective from the
stenciling machine.
The addresses for sample copies are OBJ
tanned from name brokers. he said, and
no addresses are used that are more
than a year and a half old In eXpla-
nation the witness said that the name
brokers sold them the original letters
from people who had written to other
firms for any purpose whatsoever and
the names and addresses are copied from
the letters to the wrappers.
The addresses on some of the sample
copy wrappers used by them were writ
ten by a name broker in New York.
with one or two exceptions these name:
were never used more than three times
| This was in April and May after the
fire, when they were short of names.
Examined in regard to the subscrip
tons and sample copies. the witness sait
that in October of 1907 that he had al
accounting made to tell the number o.
subscribers. In the spring of the same
year he had made an accounting of tn,
subscribers by counting the wrappers fo
subscribers copies.
The count OF the stencils would no
show the true number OF subscribers
The only way is to count the wrappers
which include those addressed by stencil
and those written. He reiterated that ;
computation from the stencils alcn'
would never show the correct number o
subscribers.
He was still on the stand when cour
| adjourned for the noon recess