The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-19

 TESTIMONY
IS GIVEN IN TRIAL OF PACKERS D BY FORMER BRANCH HOUSE
 MANAGER FOR MORRIS.
Directly Connects Packers with Test Cost Which Has Been Under Fire During Entire Course
 of the Trial.

Chicago, Jan tS-Two defendants i in the trial of the( packers were men tioned today as having had personal knowledge of the test cost of beef through weekly reports mailed to them by subordinate
 Walter A. Wall, branch house manager of Morris and Company at St Joseph, testified that in 1906, 1907 and 1908, he mailed to Edward Nor ris and Louis II Heyman, two of the defendants, reports giving the figures on the test cost of beef He mailed the reports to these ot- ficials at the Chicago office of Morris and Company until January, 1909 when MT. Mcfarland head of he dressed beef department, instructed him to stop sending the reports to Edward Morris. The witness said aft CT that he sent two copies of the test cost of beef figures to Louis H. Hey man.
 It was the first time since the be- ginning of the trial that the govern ment has directly connected any of the defendants with the much discuss ed test cost of beef which the prose cution contends played such an im- portaht part in the alleged packers combination
 Wall was questioned by United States Senator w. $ Kenyon, who appears in the case as one of the speo cial counsel for the government
 He was on the stand when court ad- journed and will resume his testimony tomorrow morning.
 John Hunter, employed as office manager by Morris and Company. was the governments tenth witness. He was questioned by United States Sen ator Kenyon, one of the special coun- sel for the governments
 Do you remember taking books to the district attorneys office in 1902" asked Senator Kenyon.
 T remember a clerk named Hutch inson who took some books to the dis trict attorneys office responded Hunter
 The witness said he had searched for the margin and beef cost books used from 1906 to 1908 and had been unabe.to find them, They must have heen destroyed said the witness 5.
 Did you order those books de- stroyed?'
 ''T may have in the regular course of businegs. but don't remember in regard 10 these particular books. frequently ordered old books destroyed to make room TOT current volumes 2 replied Hunter
 Albert C. Hutcasson. a clerk for Morris and Company, for eleven years, ! the next witness, remembered taxing | the margin and beef cost books from i the office of Morris and Company to the district attorneys office in 1909 and said that Mr. Hunter and his as sistant directed him which books to take After the district attorney was through with them, he said, he return ad the books to Morris and Company's s office.
 Walter A Wall, for IS years man ager of branch houses at East. st. Louis and St Joseph. Mo, for Morris and Company. was then called The ' witness said he made daily and week I ly reports to the Chicago office Of shipments received and total sales.
 Wall said the killing charge was changed several times while he was 1 with Morris and Company "A dollar a head was added to Inc killing charge in tae4 2 tA4te ssfd He -beife+ed- tiife charge was s2 40 at that time, but was not certain The witness was unable to remember the exact allowances made for fat and hides but said no al lowance was made for hides in April, 1909
 When did you receive the order to resume the allowance for hides?"
 About year and a half later'
 "Who gave you the orders?"
 "Mr. Mcfarland. head of tiie tress ed beef departmeat"
 The witness said that acting under instructions from MT. Mcfarland he mailed weekly copies of the test cost of beef from the branCh house at St Joe, Mo. to Edward Morris and Lon [ is H. Heyman, in Chicago These re ] ports, he said. were forwarded from