Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-17
S.P c. A. AGENTS
WERE PAID FOR
DEAD ANIMALS
Local representatives Added
to Their Income, Legisla-
tive Probers Find
TEED, READY AND SIcKLES
ARE MEN WHO GOT MONEY
Chairman Johnson, of Commit
tee, Fined in Court Today for
Cruelty to Animal Charge.

Three agents of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and
a justice of the peace, Richard f.
Hopwood. of 36 Clinton street, were
declared to have sold for SO each car
casses of animals they had killed or
ordered killed. by Sidney S. Sehwarz,
of the Sehwarz Rendering Company
of East Newark, in testimony given
today before the special legislative
committee which has been investi-
eating the operations of the S. p.
G. A.
Schwarz said he frequently paid
agents for the society for the car
casses, during the years 190S-l9l4. He
recalled only one instance in which
payment had been made to the So
ciety. The usual procedure of pur-
chase was that his firm would be mott
fed over the telephone by an agent or
Justice HOpwood, There is a dead
horse al --. This is -, and my
address is --. Make your check to
my order"
Lewis G. Teed. Adam Ready and
Charles A. Sclles were agents for the
society who engaged in these transae.
tions, the witness said, and he al
ways paid whichever of them sent
the message regardless of who the
owner of the dead animal might be.
No attempt ever was made to learn
the identity of the owner. and moth
ing WIS paid him by the rendering
company.
Witness was unable to specify the
number of such transactions with the
agents.
No amount of questioning by
A Ill - Taa1
grim, who acted as questioner for the
committee, could elicit more details
concerning the number or frequency
of such transactions
Witness said the amount involved
i'm all the transactions "was not sub
stantial'
Justice Tells of Payments
Justice Hopwood was called To the
stand and stated he remembered be-
ing paid for earcasses in ten in
stances, and that it might have been
fifteen. Pressed by Mr.. Pilgrim as Ia
whether he believed the horses be-
longed to the owners after the AMI
! mails death, and as TO his right tc
! sell the animals, he declared he had
| such aright "if the owners gave hin
| the animals"
Mr.. Schwarz stated he could pro.
duce in the future a statement of the
exact number of payments made for
dead animals in S, p c. A. cases. but
could not present ii today because OF
the absence of his stenographer.
An occurrence in connection with
the investigation was that the hear
| ing was delayed an hour and a hall
beyond the scheduled starting time
of 10 o'clock because a negro driving
/, l..
man Harry ID. Johnson, chairman OF
the probing committee, was being
tried in the First Precinct Court on
cruelty of animal charge for driv-
ing an overloaded wagon. Peter
Bloom, of South Tenth street. the
owner, paid the fine, and Mr. John
son proceeded to the hearing.
Tries to Prove Encouragement.
An attempt to establish that S. p
c. A. business was done by prear-
rangement with a small clique oi
justices of the peace who would guar
antee celerity of trial and con-
venience, was made by Assemblymar
Pilgrim in his questioning of Justice
Hopwood The choice of justices OF
the peace in preference to police
court Justices was another allegation
Mr.. Pilgrim attempted to prove by
the witnesses testimony.
Justice Hopwood denied any pre-.
arrangement with the society agents
When the records showed that five
justices of the peace had the large
majority of cases in the years 1908
! 1914, the witness said it was because
the arrests were made In localities
! in which one of these five was the
nearest Justice In his own case HI
was sure every action before hin