Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-03

OF the number of stencils used in ad-
dressing wrappers for regular sub
scribers ard the number of wrappers
actually used for this purpose.
Witnesses for the government tes-
tilted that they found $4,000 stencils
and C2G,c00 wrappers. The government
contends that the difference between
these numbers represents approximate
ly the number of sample copies that
were Seht out IS regulars and this diff
ference amounts to more than one
fourth the whole number Of subscrip-
ton copies sent out. The government
also contends that the 125 900 wrap
pcrs III excess of the number Of stem
ellis were addressed in hand writing
but nearly q score Of girls who worked
in the mailing room OF the Publishing
Go. testified that there were no wrap
PerS addressed in writing among those
to go TO regular subscribers. Although
the district attorney closely cross-ex-
alninnd on this point he was unable to
shake the testimony Of but one witness.
The examination of young women
witnesses i'll the United States District
Court was continued today in the trial
IF George Fred Terry and Harry w.
Bosnian, both of Waterville on an in
diCtment alleging fraud in the use Of
the mails. The direct testimony Of
the Is witnesses was similar though
they differed somewhat in their state
ments on DISCRIMINATION.
Mr.. Philbrick examined along the
lines of Saturdays inquiry but as the
trial progressed he gradually eliminat-
ed some of the questions. The girls
told Of getting the wrappers, and
wrapping the magazines, and most of
them We're asked to identify top wrap
pers for regular subscribers. These
sheets came to the girls on top of the
bundles of the wrappers and We're
marked "Sawyers' to indicate that
the papers to be wrapped in them
We're to go to regular subscribers.
District Attorney Whitehouse cross
examined at length especially as to
whether the girls wrapped samples
and regulars at different times, wheth-
er the girls found any written address,
es among the wrappers for regulars,
and whether they noticed whether the
girls working along side of them
wrapped the same kind of papers that
they, (the witnesses) We're wrapping.
The district attorney was insistent
in his question as to whether there
were any hand written wrappers
among the stencled wrappers but with
almost no exception the witnesses
answered that there were no written
addressed wrappers among those
whichSwere to enclose papers to reg
ular subscribers.
1t is the contention of the govern
ment that while the stencils for mark
ing wrappers to regular subscribers
when counted indicated a regular sub
ScriptiOn circulation of 4S7 900 copies,
the daily reports of the girls wrapping
the papers showed that about 620,000
copies were wrapped OF each issue, as
regular or considerably more than 125,
600 above the subscription copies as in
dictated by the stencils. The govern
ment contends that these $4,000 in
excess over the stencil wrappers We're
wrappers which were addressed in
hand writing and were really sample
copies sent out as regulars, III order
to deceive the postoffice weighers.
Although the district attorney cross
examined the witnesses sharply on this
point he could not get any Of them to
admit that they had seen any hand
writing addressed wrappers among
the regular stenciled wrappers.
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