Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-23


building about ~ by 3 feet. used as
! sleeping place for the butcher. She
said the bed was indescribably dirty.
She told of q table showing that who
ever slept there ate in the shack. There
We're new lard cans in the room, a small
stove and this room was certainly too
dirty and too filthy to be used near a
| place where meat is prepared" The
| part just quoted was ordered stricken
out as being a conclusion, but she said
| the place was indescribably dirty and
| there were just swarms of flies-lots of
them
| She said it was remarked that these
were the same kind Of flies seen ut
Pierce park and that these flies made
| picknicliing there unpleasant.
Gross. DENOMINATION.
| This completed the direct examina-
| ton and she was simply asked on
cross examination IL she had talked
! with any one except the attorneys for
| the defense about the case. She said,
| ''Why, yes" in tones OF such convic-
ton that she was excused without
! further examination.
Another Woman Witness.
Miss Fannie Marie Irwin was next
! called. She is Il sister of the last wit
ness and went with her and the other
party to inspect the slaughter house.
| she described the location OF the place
! by telling how they drove in. getting
! there. the slaughter house, she said,
being located among the trees about
half mile from the main road.
The lard house is a small building
! with the door near the center. She de-
scribed the interior and it's contents,
! including the rendering kettle, the lard
cans and great kettle with lard In,
| the top of it being all covered with
dirt, filth, flies. land 1t was all creepy"
she said, there being something alive
in it that looked like worms. She
told of the greasy, fly-bedecked
brooms. The conditions were foul be-
| yond description" she declared, and
the place was filled with dirt, flies and
other matter
She noticed the shack used as
sleeping place. 1t was located about
, the distance across the court room
from the slaughter house. II didn't
look in it," she said, because l had
had enough"
The court on motion of Gibson, or
dered the expression because l had
| had enough stricken out.
She said the pens where the hogs
and sheep were kept were without
| water or food and had no evidence OF
water or food being supplied. She
said she saw dead chickens about the
yard
There was no cross examination and
the witness was excused.
DIR. NJ. w. Smith was the principal
witness today in behalf of the defend
ant, the Capital News. He is one of
the deputy pure food inspectors work
ling under Wallis, the pure food inspec-
tor. He inspected the slaughter house
on Aug. 10, together with Wallis and
others. He said they found the slaugh-
ter house open. 1t was not In a clean
condition. The tools were not clean and
had not been cleaned since last usage,
but had clotted blood and other refuse
The clothing worn by the butcher was
saturated with blood and other filth. In
the hog vat there was several inches of
dirty, greasy sediment, which emitted a
great stencil. There were flies cover
ing this vat. They We're big green,
blow flies" He described three kinds
of flies that infect meat, some Of them
depositing live larvae on freshly killed
meat. He said he noticed the big green
flies there. He said he saw no freshly
killed meat that day. There was no
tank for tanking the offal. The chute
from the house to the river was in a
filthy condition and at the back door
only six or eight feet away there were
T hides and skins Of hogs in a state Of
decomposition, and under the killing
t platform there was a tub Of blood and
/ fhia and tho doppvirp hiIas a
very bad stencil.
3 He said the building was screened but
not in a way to be of any practical
value. He said outside there was a pile
of hog refuse and several dead chickens.
: He tipped one over with his foot and
; found it filled with maggots.
He said the lard house Is a board
and bat building, one-half floored and
; the other just dirt The rendering vat
was about full of crackilngs and lard
from previous rendering. Several
pals Of lard were found open with dirt,
dust flies and mice manure and other
!, indications of mice about them.
Outside the lard house was q
, kettle Of taIlow refuse. In some
Of the lard were crawling insects,
flies and mice droppings. ~ took
the pals to be new pals, on which
grease had been dropped, and the
dirt, flies and mice droppings had
accumulated on thsn." These
pals were marked "Purs Lard"
IL probably with the name Of the
market also on, he said.
The oHai pile contained mites.
tines, heads, paunches, dscayina
animal life and refuse, which was
one solid mass Of magsots, and
the whole was covered with tho
big green or elbow" flies. He said
they would readily 90 from this
pile to the meat. "Fiiss," he said,
"are oonsidsrsd one Of the great
est means Of conveying disease
germs to meat and elsewhere"
He said they would convey germs
Of diphthsria, typhoid, scarlet
fever, consumption, syphilis and