Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — TAKE UP BEEF MARGINS [ARTICLE]

TAKE UP BEEF MARGINS

Attorneys for Government Continue Examination of S. G. Langher. Chicago, Jan. 26.—Search for more light on the margin system used by the National Packing company was the subject of considerable interrogation by Pierce Butler, government counsel, wheh the packers’ trial was resumed in District Judge George A. Carpenter's court. Steiner G Langher, who formerly figured margins, was recalled as a witness. Langher read from books of the G. H. Hammond Company, under which corporate title the National operates. The margin books covered the period from April I,' 1907, to March 31, 1909. Methods of keeping , these books were explained at length to the Jury.