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Show H SHEETS IE READ TO THE JURY Documents Called "the Rcd-l Rcd-l landed Tilings" in Case ol Packers by Attorney, CHICAGO, Jan. Thlrtv-fte orlsinal margin sheets of the National Paddna company for shtpmrats mad to eastern iiir-, between Januan and Augruat, llll, ;and referred to as "red-handed lltlnaa" by S ocdal Oounad Pierce Butlei for the, aovernmaat. were i-ead to the Jury lode In the puckers" trial as iint'ortant links t In the protneutton's clrcumatatitlal 1 nana ', of evidence. , The defence mad S deteriSltned ttf- i fot r to-exclude ihe.e docuntenta. 1 "You call theae orlainal margin hosts vague aid Immaterial." ioiitef soeclnl I .'otjnsel Butler. "Why, they an ihe red- handed things In this case." Judge Carpenter allowed the mamln ' ! sheet lo he iead t' InC I'll . . s'teiner f. Langhor, maraln 'irrk for the Hammond Packlnn company, a sub- I Sldlan of the National Packing company, com-pany, was op ihe stand All day and W81 rofi.exn:nlriC'"l h'" Attorngv .!o',hi Bar- ;ou Payne, ho ted hundreds of entries front the corporation' hooks to show the wide difference In the price? ohtamed for lots of meat shipped from the same plant 1 to different 1 it to:. lostfiiices were ritrd where the dif-fareneg dif-fareneg In ths m ice wn. a . enl s pound on the same lot of niet sold the sans da- in cities hundreds of miles euarl The defense argued thnt 1 1 1 -s c- facta show that the pries received Is not ie- t' rminer) hv toe margin. Attorney Payne attempted to show that I thr price was fixed aolab" the law 'l sudpIv and demand and hv tho ahillt'.- or the branch house managers. The government contends thai the teal cost and margin were the means used hv the alleged combination of packers i" tlx the price An4 that the system used wns uniform, although the ticnrfH mil I differ on separate lots of Cattlv |