Evening journal., 1913-03-14
SAYS PHOTOS
WERE FAXED
Pictures Cf Lumber Company
Plans Made in New York
Witness Says
COMPANY HAD TO
BORROW TO PAY FREIGHT

PHILADELPHIA, A, Pa. MaFch
Testimony that tho lnteinauohai
Lumber and Development company
n .renresentcd as TO the number OF
foe, of timber Il received on its mrs.
comment from Mexico and publlsneo
-fake' photographs to deceive oteuu-
love investors. was introduced yes'ef-
,s. before Judge Witmor IN the
United states district court
Yes,efoay was the ninth day IN t-e
,,,.t af HE officials and promoters
NJ mo company They are charged
With swindlih4 poor investors OUT O.
,oorn fhaa e6 6.nu0.unO b., false and ms
,asd,nc literature sent through the
malls ,, of
the Astoria Veneer Mills, located AT
Long Island City r. v. was the ohly
Oifncss Yesterday. His testimony
gave me Jury an excellent insight INTO
tho "eet-rich-Quick" methods OF lhe
company II was a solar plexus blow
aeainei the defense ihe evidence ne
srbmltted can be summed up as ioi-
lows ,h,.,.
which The company advertised as re-
ceivine I'M 1904 at the Long lsiana
civ lumber yards was I'm reality only
SO2 goo feet .,,o,,
That the company was IN sueh
6nanrial straits that It could not pay
the freight on that hrst shipment oi
lumber until March, 1905,
Advertising Photographs Fakes
That photographs Of mahogany
which the company carried IN aoNeI-
tlsements printed IN Philaoeiphla
newspapers were pictures OF lumpet
owned by other concerns ana IN most
cases were not photographs OF Mex
can mahogany at all. but OF maple
English oak and mahogany whleh
thrives on the west coast of AFRICA
The witness testiied that In Feoru-
arv or March of 1906, William Arm
strong. Jr, general agent OF the IN
ternatlonal Lumber and Development
Companv. appeared at his lumber
ward with camera and said' Il have
come down TO take some pictures OF
our logs. n,,,
II toid him to go as far as he liked
said Williams.
district Attorney Swartley asked
Williams TO Identity a photograph OF
n nile of logs printed In one OF the
sdvertiscmcnts of the company. The
logs were represented 60 be Mexican
mahogany cut from the plantation OF
tho international Lumber and pe.
velopmcnt Company In the state ol
Campcchc. Mexico. The witness ~
once identified the logs In the photo
graph as belonging TO the Amerlca'
Trading Company or the Loull
Thompson Company. OF New YORK
Another photograph which was rep
resented TO he a picture of nam
moth mahogany log cut from IN
houndlcss mahogany forests OF m
ccmpany i'm Mexico. was identified b
Williams as an English oak log, be
longing TO William II. Marshall AM
Company. OF New York
The mahogany" Was Maple.
A photograph represented 10 be M
picture of q large stack of MAHOGANY
was identified as pile OF maple logs
the shipment of another concern. Tit
witness Identified still another photo
araph as a pile of mahogany from th'
west coast of Africa, also the prop
erty of another company,
The defendants are John H. MARX
ley promoter, Of Chicago; isaiah .
Miller. promotion partner OF Markiey
also OF Chicago, Charles NJ. Mac
Mahou. secretary and treasurer OF I'M
International Lumber and Develop
ment Company; Colonel A. g. Stewart
director and commissioner OF the com
nanN. and william Armstrong. Jr
director and general agent OF tne
company
n is contended by the government
that the company paid out more thal
81 sO0.0 600 I'm dividends from the capl
tal stock. and not from profits earned
n ls also charged that the defendant
iolned in conspiracy to use th'
malls 10 defraud.
After Williams was called TO IN
stand he identified contract whicl
he signed with the International Lum
her and Development Company Jul
IL 1904 According TO the term
Of that contract, he agreed TO manu-
facture into timber and veneer log
ehipped to his yards In Long islam
CITY from the Mexico plantation.
Borrowed 10 Pay Freignt.
The first shipment was received J
December. 1904 They we're unloade
from a Munson line freight steamshl
on to four lighters. and thence tram
ferred TO his yards He said that h
shipment consisted Of 1874 MeNica
mahogany logs and 95 cedar logs. y
declared that he was surprised at n
poor quality OF the timber and wro
a letter of complaint TO the Inlern
tlonal Lumber and Development Cor
pany.
II wrote the company he sal