New-York tribune., 1912-01-12
PACKERS BOOKS MISSING
Government Is Anxious to Lay
Them Before Jury.
COST SHEETS DESTROYED
Prosecution Trying to Show
Allowances for Different By
Products Were Inadequate,

chicago. Jan Il.-Books and records
showing the items and allowances used III
dgu-iug the test cost Of fresh meats which
were inspected ny federal grand jury III
yestlcatlnc charges Of rcbating against the
r,c,crs I'm lqaQ cannot be found ty en-
ploves of the defendants for use in the trial
Of fbe ten packers charged with conspiracy
in restraint Of trade before United States
District Judge Carpenter.
Three accountants employed by the pack
e~s testified to-day that they had Sedfcheu
for the records I'm question and had been
unable 70 md them, ney said theN Dc
I,eved the documents had been deStIoHeu.
The witnesses were asked to bring lle
price ledger and other books bearing on tne
manufacture snd sale of fresh meat mo
court tomorrow. but It Is expected that tLe
defence will make = determined enort 10
prevent them from going into the Teooro .,
the case on the ground that the DOCKS ol
o corporation cannot be used as evidence
AGAINST its officers in a criminal proceedlne
The three witnesses heard to-day pre-
viously had given testimony against 'hF
packers before federal grand luries' oo'
Judge Carpenter declined 10 permit the VIZ
nesses TO read the stenographic report oL
tHe ersnd Jury evidence for the purpose oi
refreshing their memories.
The hackers accountants were unable 10
remember many Of the items and allow
ances used in figuring the test cost ol
slaughtered cattle.
The three witnesses heard were Henry r..
Mover. chief accountant in the dressed
meat department OF Armour & CO.. Eosa'
Rothschild. . clerk in the same department
and II. a. Timmns, chief accountant lor
Norris & Co.
The government endeavored to show oF
the testimony Of these witnesses that 'he
svsteul used by Armour & Co ana MOTIFS
& Co. in figuring the test cost was suo'
s+antlallv the same, and that the allow
ances made for the different hy-produC'S
we're inadequate. -.
In his testimony Moyer reiterated tnat the
sheets used in figuring the test cost were
kept six months and then destroyed anu
District Attorney Wilkerson then o'ered IN
evidence the printed forms used IN hIur''s
the test cost OF cattle.
There was laugh when the witness III
describing the difference between Texas ana
native hides, was interrupted by Distncl
Attorney Wnkcrsou. who inquired, "Do you
mean hides with the head on?
NO: the head does not so with the hloe'
only the tail" explained the witness
Harry A. Timmins chief accountant Tor
Morris a Co for more than ten years, was
the next witness examined. lie was ques-
toned as to the Whereabouts of the COM
panys cattle cost books which wer" used
before the federal grand jury in 1903 and
returned to the company,
II have searched the Office vaults. hut
can find no trace OF them said the Wit
ness.
DO you remember being ordered 10 pro-
dg,c those cost books in 1902
IF DO not
The witness said ho testified tofore fed
cral grand juries in 1909 and 1910.
Timmin- said the information regarding
cattle costs was kept on loose sheets after
1910 end these were destroyed alter being
kept a few weeks.
Is the same test cost used at al your
plants. with a difercuual allowance for
lrcjzht?"
Yes