Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-20

business with Holland or any other
country. In substantiation of this
statement the firm has a signed confess
sion by one of the men concerned in
breaking into the plant at night. The
statement follows:
1.-THE article printed in the Newark
News is not only a gross libel upon
this company, but is published in the
attempt to head off the exposure of a
gigantic conspiracy TO ruin the
Schwarz business in which a branch
of the beef trust and a concern in
the fertilizer trust, Schwarz's conn
petitors, the government detectives,
two newspaper reporters of the New
ark Evening News and several officials
are involved.
Picked Horse Idea Schwsrz's.
This very morning the president
of this with its counsel, has
been before the United States district
attorney and submitted evidence of
this conspiracy to be presented be-
fore the United States Grand Jury.
Arrests were made several days ago
by the Schwarz people in this matter,
which were known 10 the reporters of
the News and by it suppressed and
this publication is in the hope of fore
stalling the exposure which the
Schwarz Brothers we're about to make.
The facts are these:
Towards the close of last year the
Schwarz company conceived the idea
OF exporting picked horse meat to
foreign governments.
I'VE then desired, and still desire,
every process of this plant to be in
spected by the government. Tt is a
distinct advertisement for us. 1t Is an
advantage in every way, and we were
anxious to have it. 1t would materially
help in the sale of the product in for
eigp countries. y
TN the preparation of this shipment
every horse that was used for his prod
uct was inspected prior to being killed
by DIR. Baldwin. The horses were
slaughtered in the main plant, but be-
fore being slaughtered the whole floor
was carefully cleansed with hot water
and the place was in perfect sanitary
condition. AS a matter of fact the
place is always in a sanitary con
dition, being constantly cleaned and
scrubbed. 1t is continually under the
supervision of the local Board of Health
inspectors and the State health In
spectors have repeatedly visited II
and always praised the sanitary con-
ditions which they found, AS soon as
the horse is slaughtered, however, the
carcass Is Immediately taken to a
separate building, where the meat is
prepared for shipment. After the
meat for this shipment of June 9th
was prepared DR.. Baldwin inspected
i. and passed it as a. pure food pro
duct. 1T was then put in barrelsrta and
DR.. Baldwin's certificate was pasted
on each barrel, and each barrel was
marked picked horse meat in a con-
spicuous way and shipped to Europe.
Each barrel of this shipment was ex-
amined on the dock in Rotterdam by
the local inspectors there n we hold
their certificate of hat examination
dated July s, 1911. certifying that the
-product was fit for human consump-
ton
The State Board of Health today
issued a statement to the effect that
DR.. e. l.. Baldwin, of s. Avon avenue,
this city, had no authority to sign him
self state veterinarian in passing
upon the exported horse meat.
"Detectives said All Was o. K.e
"One OF the detectives the other day
confessed to a representative of this
company that they opened each barrel
Of this shipment on the dock at Ho-
bcken and sampled the contents, and
found that it was all right. At the
time Of this shipment there was a
quantity of this product, in amount
about thirty-f1ve barrels, Nhich was
rot completely cured. and these thirty
five barrels are the subject of the re-
mainder of this most astonishing story,
"in the meantime, some six or eight
weeks ago, we began to observe certain
suspicious actions on the part of men
around U plant, and began to hear
some gossip from reighborlng saloon
keepers about the presence OF myster-
ious men. A newspaper reporter OF the
News also appeared, to whom the Whole
story was then told. He was so anxious
to know the precise date of II next
shipment that we became suspicious
that our competitors were preparing
to injure our product in some way.
81 knew the powerful nature of the
beef trust and the fertilizer trust, who
are my competitors, and I became sus-
picious that we might be made the vic
tins of some conspiracy Finally a few
days before Labor Day things began K
come to a head. A n~eighboring saloon
keeper came over and said that there
was a bunch of men hanging arount
his place, and that he thought they
were crooks. That he had overheard
their plan to do something to our hors'
meat and then seize it and put us on
of business.
To-day the president OF this compan
and it's counsel visited United States
District Attorney Vreeland, at Norris
town, and laid before him the evidence
OF this driver and the saloon-keeper
and Geissler and asked him to submit
it to the United States Grand Jury a
the basis of an indictment of Levy AM
these detectives and all the other par
ties to this conspiracy. and he nov
has this matter under advisement, an
on our return from Morristown 70
the first time We saw the article il
the News.
yesterday representatives of tn
State Board of Health appeared TO
the first time, to whom we stated tn
4 substance of this story Shove
them the meat which we believed t
have been poisoned. We believe thi
whole proceeding is a conspiracy t
destroy, If possible, our business. "
haze taken every step in u bushes
under the best legal advice. TIL
charges in the News that we have pre-
pared this meat under insanitary con
ditions are absolutely false