The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-09-20
HORSE MEAT SOLD
WAS DISEASED, IS
LATEST CHARGE
Bureau of Chemistry Hurls
Accusations at Schwarz
Bros. & Co., Packers.

''The charge against the New jersey
corcern is not that 1t picked horse
meat for export trade. but that 1t
picked diseased horse flesh. The Blu
reau of Chemistry itself would have
conducted the prosecution OF the pack
ers had they not been tipped on that
our inspectors were gathering evidence.
Hence, they did not make an inter-
state shipment, and that State OF New
Jersey must proceed instead"
An official of the Department of Ag-
riculture thus explained today the SEN
sational charge that has been brought
against Schwarz Bros. & Co., Of New
ark, who are alleged to have picked
diseased horse meat for shipment to
Holland. The president Of the accused
firm says that the bureau Of chemistry
has been imposed upon by enemies OF
schwarz Bros and that the charges
made will not hold Picked horse meat.
the firm says, Is often used Tor food
in several European countries. ana II IS
denied that the New Jersey hrm has
picked diseased flesh.
The Bureau of Chemistry, as told In
The Times yesterday, has turned the
case over to the New Jersey authorl-
ties. The evidence collected by the pu-
reau will be available for the use OF
the State and the case promises TO De
one of the most interesting and sensa.
tiorial that has grown out OF national
or State pure food laws.
The complaint of the Bureau of Chem
istry is meat from horses dying OF dis
ease has been picked.
How Case Was Worked Up.
In a letter to the State board Of health
OF New Jersey, made public by the
board today. Acting Chief F. L. Dun
lap. Of the bureau OF chemistry. out
lined the case worked UP by the Fed
eral bureau against the New Jersey
concern. About June 10, 1911. says the
bureaus report, the bureau Of chemistry
was tdvised that the firm exported
picked horse meat to Holland, and that
the shipments were entered at Rotter-
dam and distributed throughout Hol-
land for food purposes.
1T was soon determined that salts
factory evidence could not be adduced
other than by having one OF the inspec-
tors enter the firm as an employee the
letter continues. This, Inspector Cal
lahan did on July p. He was engaged
for a period Of two weeks. most Of the
time as the driver of the dead horse
wagon which transported carcasses
from Jersey City, Newark. and sur
localities TO Kearney. He
gained the confidence of the firm to an
the picking room which is separate. but
adjacent 10 the main plant.
Diseased Animals In Watts.
The inspector reports and can tes-
tify that the thirty-one watts, more or
less, now stored in this picking room
consist in part Of animals that have died
otherwise than by slaughter, together
with animals slain on the premises. but
which were diseased. and thereby un-
1T for food"
The bureau Of chemistry report states |
hat testimony -corroborative OF that OF
Inspector Callahan can be furnished by
Inspector Lind and inspector Raynor,
who witnessed some part Of the hand
ing of the meat.
Mr.. Raynor, It is stated. is in po-
;ition to testify that the firm receives
an average OF thirty dead horses week
and a varying number of live animals.
from one to Ave, the latter OF
which are emaci6ted. crippled, or APP
oarently diseased and evidently unfit for
'ood. Inspector Raynor kept constant
y atch on the esta blishment during the
period that the shipment in question |
was being transferred.