United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 5267 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...office of J. A. Petersen for the transaction of steamship business is held. What post, if any, you hold in the business house and office of said firm? Who is the bookkeeper thereof? Who handles the cash? Please state, if you know, who issues passage tickets on vessels for which said firm or said J. A. Petersen receives money, and who receives and enters the cash therefor. During what hours were you, in August, 1894, in the office of the said concern? State whether you were there at the opening and closing of the said office. Did or not John McCafferty; and if so, come into the office of the said concern during the said month of August, 1894? Was or not any ticket issued out of said office for passage to John McCafferty to Mobile? Was any money ever credited to the charterers of the steamship Nicaragua on the books of your office for any passage, or was any such passage money ever entered into the books? Please state what person or firm attends at Bluefields to the money affairs, such as the receipt of passage money and the like, of Orr & Laubenheimer, merchants of Mobile and charterers of fruit steamer? From what office are such passage tickets issued? Who presides over said office and attends to the issuance of such tickets? Who is, and who, in August, 1894, was, the chief clerk, if any one, of said firm? And of said Petersen? Is Carl Brunsen such chief clerk or not? If not, what employment or place did said Brunsen hold in August, 1894? (Intervenor objects separately to each of the first twelve questions contained in the above interrogatory, because each of such questions calls for irrelevant and immaterial testimony.) A. 1. My partner is Herman Ebensperger. My office is on the right-hand side entering the store. It is necessary to come in the store b...