Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-24

A. l would say several.
9. What do you mean By several?
A. A number Of them.
Q. Did You say In the center of that
room there was a large PLATFORM
a. No.
q. A pump there?
A. Yes.
@. On the thirteenth. you didn't see
any old ORAL pile in the slaughter
house?
A. In the slaughter house?
Q. Yes.
A. No.
Q. See any old cffal pile in the
slaughter house on the fourteenth?
A. No.
q. DID you see any pile-oftal pile
just outside of the slaughter house?
A. Short distance from 1t.
Q. Did you SEQ any just outside?
\. Not leaning up against 1t.
Q. How far away?
A. A hundred yards.
Q. Trees between that and the
slaughter house?
A. On each side Of the roadway
leading to 1t.
Q. was there roadway leading to
1t?
A. Yes.
9. A wagon road?
A. Yes, from the slaughter house to
the pile.
@. Were there any fences crossing
this road you saw leading from the
slaughter house to the offal pile?
A. Yes.
=. How many?
A. Two.
=. What kind OF fences?
A. Wire fences.
Q. Two wire fences?
A. Yes.
G. Any gates in those?
A. One.
q. Any gate in the second one?
A. l don't remember; / crawled I'M
der.
Q. Did you say that you walked all
over this offal pile?
A. Yes, as much as it would hold
me.
.. You did walk all over it?
A. Couldn't very we'll help walking
on some Of it il anywhere near 1t. it
was so large.
@. Wasn't this offal pile burning?
A. No.
q. Was it burning on the thirteenth =?
A. No.
O. Was it burning on the four
tenth?
A. Not until In the afternoon.
O. Was 1t burning all over the top
in the afternoon?
A. No.
.. You say this offal pile was lit,
you think, on the fourteenth-or light
ed on the fourteenth with fire?
A. Yes.
q. Could it not have been lighted
on the twelfth, eleventh or tenth?
A. No.
O. In this lard house you say there
was a rendering tank?
A. Yes.
@. A stove under It? Was there a
stove under It?
a. I don't know.
G. Was the rendering tank all set
up in place. ready to render?
A. Yes.
Q. All you would have to do would
be to go in, pour 1t in and render it,
underneath 1t.
w. W cSh tuS tdifh
knocked off to one side?
A. No.
q. You are sure of that?
A. Absolutely sure.
Q. This tank had grease all along
he side?
a. On the inside.
Q. Clear up to the top?
A. 1t was around the edge. Dust
intermingled with grease.
Q. anything in the bottom of it?
A. Dead flies; filth.
q. Anything else?
A. Nothing that saw.
@. What is filth; explain that?
a. Why in this slaughter house, II
is rotten dirt in this instance and
grease.
@. BY dirt, do YOU mean earth that
comes from the fields?
A. Yes, that blows I'm through the
screen doors and onto that greasy tank
-unclean, insanitary tank.
.. This dust, you think, blew in on
this grease and lodged there and this
made dirty condition?
A. Yes, along with the dead flies.
Q. Do you know why those flies
died?
A. Because It was SO dirty in there
l suppose.
@. Died feeding on that dirt? Don't
you assume those flies died because
they ate that dirt?
A. / am not quite that simple.
q. That is what you said?
A. No, I didn't.
@. You say you saw some imple-
ment with some tin cans turned over
the ends OF them?
A. ! didn't say tin cans.
q. Well. cans?
A. 1 believe l termed them strain
ers.
@. Have holes through It?
A. Yes.
@. How many buckets Of lard did
| you see altogether in that slaughter
house?
A. Several.
O. Did you sec some small ones?
a. Yes.
Q. Several OF those, too?