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Show MARGIN SHEETS" IN PACKERS' TRIAE CHICAGO, Jan. 26. Thirty-five original or-iginal margin sheets of the National Packing comPar,y for shipment made to eastern cities between January and Augubt, 1910, and referred to as "red handed , things" by, Special Counsel Pierce Butler for the gbvornmont, ivere read to the Jury today In tho packers trial as important links In the prosecution's circumstantial chain of evidence. The defenso made a determined effort ef-fort to exclude these documents. "Yon call these original margin sheets vague and immaterial," shouted shout-ed Special Counsel Butler. "Why, they are red handed things in this case " Judge Carpenter allowed tho margin sheets to be read to the jury. Stoiner G Laugher, margin clerk for the Hammond Packing company, a subsidiary of the Natiopal Packing company, was on the stand all day and was cross-examined by Attorney John Burton Pnyne, who read hundreds hun-dreds of entries from the corporation's corpora-tion's books to show the wido difference dif-ference in the pricos obtained for lots of meat shipped from the plant to different cities Instances were cited where the difference dif-ference in the price was a cent a pound on the same lot of meat sold tho same day In cities hundreds of miles apart. The defense argued that these facts show that the price received Is not determined by tho margin. Attorney Payne attempted to show that the "price was fixed solely by tho law of supply and demand and by the ability of the branch house managers. Tho government contends that the test cost and margin were the meanB UBcd by the alleged combination of packors" to fix the price and that the system used was uniform although tho figures might differ on separate lots of cattle. oo |