New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1921-01-15
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ANS.
WEIR TO COMBINATION
var COMMISSIONER.
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Conservation Commissioner OF
the State of Louisiana, if you
knew or had been advised that a
car load of wild ducks. consisting
of one hundred and len crates.
contain in all one thousand five
hundred and twenty birds, passed
through the CITY Of New Orleans
during the month Of December,
1916, consigned 20 John Haywood
Of Gardner. Massachusetts,, and ii
YOU knew at that time December
9Th 1870 that John Haywood
was operating a game farm III
massachusetts, as private enter
: prise and not as a State lnStltu-
ton?
9Th. 7 want to ask the Conser-
walton Commissioner, whether or
not he had been advised that such
a shipment would be made from
the Parish of Iberia, and who adj
vised him or asked his PERMISSION
or consent to make the Shipment,
and when the permission or con-
sent of the Conservation Com
missioner was secured, before or
after the shipment?
It'll. | want to ask you, the
Conservation Commissioner if the
permission. consent or authority
to make this shipment had beef
7@-auted in writing or verb3ent
49, o,'.a,,,,,If the permissionerballv
or authorlt>-was grapation Com
anen | ask the Coany Statute of
th missioner So to gEisiana giving him
Och as it not a fact and rec
orJ a your Department, that
Init was issued for the taking
of wild birds, only after the ship !;
nent of the one thousand five
and twenty nine live
ducks had gone through New Or
leansg
10th. I want to ask the Con, !
Commissioner in what :
way the interest of the State OF :,
Louisiana, entrusted to him, as
the head of the Conservation De- :
partment was cared for in this :
shipment Of one thousand five r.,
hundred and twenty nine live wild :.
ducks, shipped before the permit !
was issued, and why you did not :.
prefer criminal charges against
the party making the shipment 2
when you ascertained that they
had been shipped without your a
permits /"
18th. I want to ask the Con- :
Commissioner, if the 3
party who shipped the one thou :
and five hundred and twenty >
line live ducks to John Haywood :.
If Gardner. Massachusetts, ever y
old him how mucl. he got for the "
lucks, and what part Of the money! i.
from the one thousand :,
i've hundred and Twenty-Five live y y
birds the State received? =,
18th. want to ask if you are =,
t this time in position to answer y
nv criticisms that might be made !.
rom permitting such a shipment y
0 60 through without full knowl- y
dge Of its purpose9 =,
And now in conclusion 4 want y
0 say that these questions can all a
'e answered by you, as you have :,
he knowledge Of where Z gather u y
Nv information to ask these ques- ~
ions. -
Can you deny, or are you ready .
0 disprove, that the shipment Of e
he one thousand five hundred and
live wild ducks
hipped without permit either
rom the United States Biological
urvey. or from the Conservation Of
department. of the State of Lou &C
iana. is the largest single ship or
lent of live wild ducks ever
lade out of the State of Louisi-
ma, to a private game farm, and m
nat the shipper of the said one tn
,ousand five hundred and twen- III
v-nine live wild ducks, received wi
ne Dollar per head for the large ha
ucks, and Fifty Cents per head 90
n the smallg II
/ want to ask you if you knowl =
lything about the blue geese n
,hn Haywood sold at Forty Dol y
rs q headY nc
After you have answered these IN
lestions, if you have no objec- lE
ons l will ask you to answer Il
me more very interesting ques- IE
ons as to the wild life, and FISH Is
VS. Of the State, and knowing lis
N to be a Conservationist, and Is
ways glad to speak on Conser- Is
'tion, il the newspapers will l.
,hl;ch nv nuoctinne I shalt hnI liz