Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1910 — GOTHAM WITNESSES TESTIFY [ARTICLE]

GOTHAM WITNESSES TESTIFY

Testimony Taken Before Federal Grand Jury In Beef Trust Case. Chicago, Feb. 8. Witnesses from New York appeared before Judge Landis’ federal grand jury which 18 investigating the alleged beef trust. They were former independent packers and officers of meat trafficking companies that had come under the ownership of the National Packing company, the $15,000,000 Armour-Swift-Morris flrm suspected by the government of being a trust. The first witness was Frederick Joseph. president of the New York Butchers' Dressed Beef association. Other New York witnesses now here to testify are K. 11 Joseph and Arthur Block and Aaron Buchbaum, also officers of the dressed beef concern.