Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-19
KEARNY HORSES
SOLD FOR FOOD,
WILEY CHARGES
CONTINUED from first page.D

" fitEt dAtH
that its practises were under federal
supervision.
Considerable secrecy attended the
preparation, picking and shipment of
the horse meat. While it. was gener-
ally known by each of the FIRMS en-
ployees that a traffic of this nature
was being carried On, not more than
two were sufficiently within the conf
/ dence OF the members of the firm to
have full or accurate knowledge Of the
matter. 1t was soon determined that
satisfactory evidence could not pc adj
duced in any manner other than by
having one of the inspectors enter the
firm as an employee. This Inspector
Callahan did on July %.
INSPECTOR Acted as Driver.
He was engaged for a period of two
weeks, part of the time as a driver of
the deal (dead) horse wagon, which
transported carcasses from Jersey City,
| Newark and surrounding localities to
the plant at Kearny. The remainder
of the time he was working inside the
packing plant in various capacities.
He gained the confidence of the firm to
an extent which permitted him to enter
the pi~ckling-room, which is separate,
but adjacent to, the main plant. He
was thereby afforded an opportunity
to observe the source of the meat
from which the picked product was
obtained and to witness its transporta-
tion after the dissection of the animal
to the picking house. The inspector
reports and can testify that the
thirty-one watts, more or less, now
stored in this pic~kling-room, consist in
part of animals that have died other
wise han by slaughter; that such lot
consists wholly or in part of animals
that have died otherwise than by
slaughter, together with animals slain
IN the premises, but which We're dis
eased and thereby unfit for food. In
spector Callahan is particularly quail
fed to give testimony as to the dis
eased condition of the animals. not
only because of his qualifications to
recognize disease either in the live
animals or by post-mortem examine
ton. on account of the fact that he is
a graduate physician and had engaged
actively in the practise of medicine for
a considerable period before entering
the inspection service.
Picks out Certain Days.
The specific evidence that he can adj
duce to show tina the consignment is
composed In part of dead animals CEN
tres around the transactions of the
firm on the dates of July 26, q, % and
20. On the 26th and 9th he was en-
gagged as a driver and transported car
casses of dead horses and one COW to
the plant. On the 2Sth and 18th he was
engaged inside the plant and assisted
in the transfer of portions of these
~carcasses, together with portions of
similar carcasses brought in by other
drivers, to- the clearinghouse, where
they were cut up and made a portion
of the meat now in pickle.
Corroborative evidence concerning
the disposition of these particular car
casses, which can be shown by the tes-
timony of Inspector Callahan to have
been animals which had died other
wise thar by slaughter, can be given
by Inspector Lind, who Witnessed the
selection of certain quarters by the
employee charged with the preparation
of the meat, and by Inspector Raynor,
who witnessed the work of Inspector
Callahan and other employees of the
firm in transferring the meat after it
had been selected to the nearby house
in which it was carved and packed.
From a position nearby the estab-
lishment of the Schwarz Bros. q Co,
Inspector Raynor maintained a con-
slant watch during the period in which
this identical shipment was being
transferred and can testify that the
firm receives on an average thirty dead
horses a week and q varying number
Of live animals, ranging from one 10
five, the latter of which are emaciated,
crippled or apparently diseased and
evidently unfit for food.
How Firm Was Informed.
At come time that latter part of
August or the first of September A. +.
Geissler, the health officer of Kearny,
and under whom Inspector Lind held
his appointment as an assistant, ac-
quainted Schwarz Brothers Of the IN
vestigation by the inspectors. In Civ
ing this information it is certain that
he apprised them of the contemplated
action of our inspectors in the event
that the Schwarz Brothers delivered
this consignment for expectation to
Holland. There is little likelihood
that, under the circumstances. the firm
will make an interstate shipment or
an expectation of this product. and it
lis probable. unless expeditions action
Is taken in the meanwhile, that the
product now in pickle will be dumped
into the rendering watts. Such a move
can be apprehended. / believe, under
Section As of the State law, which
confers coniscatory powers on YOU.
In transmitting this information for
your confederation | beg to sur you
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