Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-14
FIVE MEN IMPLICATED IN CROOK
Ed TRANSACTIONS At SIOUX
CITY YARDS
THREE ADMIT GUILT,
INVOLVE TWO OTHERS
Stock Yards and Cudahy Employees
Mako Statements Indicating Methods
bv Which Entertainments Were Car
ried on-Weisht Slips Forged and
Charged to Packer, Money Pocketed.

Albert Zimmerman, hog buyer for Cud-
ahy Packing company; Harold Rock
wood and Fred Miller. statesmen for
| commission firms at the stock yards,
have been obtained by the attorneys
for the packing company. The confess
sions implicate Frank Burns and Joseph
Sales, statesmen, who are under arrest
but who have not made any confess
sions.
1t probably will be the latter part OF
| this week before a definite check can
be obtained on the amount which the
Cudahy company has lost thru the
deals" of the five men. A. l.. Blair,
formerly office manager Of the Sioux
City plant and now stationed at Omaha
is in Sioux City checking over the sale
slips for the past two years in an
effort to reach an estimate OF the loss.
The three men who have confessed
to the crime probably will waive pre-
liminary hearing this morning in the
court Of Justice Of the Peace d. {.
Browning and be bound over to the
March grand jury, the attorneys for the
packing company stated.
According to the attorneys the hVc
men who have been arrested are the
only ones connected with the swindlc.
Reports that the cmbcZzlemcnt would
involve a large number of the stock
yards men are erroneous. it is de-
clared. None OF the commission men
at the stock yards is connected with
hoe
some employee who has been with .ne
firm for a number of years and who
was considered a trusted employc.
Confession Bares SwindIe.
The method used to defraud the
packing company was so simple that II
slipped thru without being noticed. 1t
finally was detected by one OF the COM
mission men Of the yards who sold Il
load of hogs to the packing company.
The sale did not look, quite right to
him and he called in his salesman, who
confessed to the deal.
The liberality of the commission men
in allowing their statesmen to speculate
in tho purchase and sale of hogs was
the method thru which the men man
aged to swindle the packing company
The method Of the swindle was this:
A commission man would have load
Of seventy six hogs for sale. His sales
neA1 would sell them to Zimmerman.
The hogs are sent to the scale house, OF
the stock yards company. The man at
the scale weighs the hogs. puts down
the number of hogs and their weight
The prices is not placed on the scale
ticket. Three duplicate scale tickets
are made. One goes to the stock yards
company, one to the commission house
and the other to the packing company.
The commission house received its
weight slip for seventy-siX hogs. made
out a bill and sent it to the Cudahy
| company. When this was signed as
correct by Frank J. Murphy, buyer
for the Cudahy company, it became a
draft on the Cudahy company and was
paid by tho company.
The weight slip which went to the
| Cudahy company would be received by
Zimmerman. He would change the
number Of hogs from seventy-six tc
seventy. He would not change the
weight or price. When the bill from
the commission house arrived it would
| be referred to Zimmerman before MUIR
ply signed Il. He would change the
number OF hogs on the bill from seven
| ty-six to seventy. The company would
pay for seventy hogs on the weight OF
| seventy-six
| Work Thru Zimmerman.
| Then he would get to one OF his &C.
completes and forge a weight slip. A
weight slip for six hogs. with an an
assumed weight. would be presented by
the salesman to the bookkeeper Of tho
commission house. The salesman
would tell the bookkeeper that he had
lsneculated in some hogs and had sold