84 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



AFFIDAVIT OF F. T. ASCHMAN. 



State of reunsvlvauia, ) 

 County of Allegheny, | 



Personally appeared before me, Professor F. T. Aschman, who 

 being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says: That he is a 

 chemist residing in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, that he is 

 r.'mployed by the Dairy and Food Commissioner of Pennsylvania to 

 make analysis of food products, that on the 1st day of September, 

 IDUO, deponent received from G. H. Wilcox, who has made and sub- 

 scribed the foregoing affidavit, the article or substance stated by him 

 to have been purchased on the date aforesaid from S. B. Charters; 

 that deponent analyzed the said substance and found the same to be 

 oleomargarine, colored by the introduction of foreign material in imi- 

 tation of yellow butter; that deponent appeared before the grand 

 jury of Allegheny county on the 2()th day of September, 1901, and 

 produced before the said grand jury the article or substance (in part) 

 so delivered to him as aforesaid by the said Wilcox, and so analyzed 

 and stated to the said grand jury under oath, that he had found the 

 same to be oleomargarine, colored by the introduction of foreign ma- 

 terial in imitation of yellow butter; that deponent had, in like manner, 

 received from various other agents, packages coutaining substances 

 purchased by them from a large number of defendants against whom 

 bills of indictment were then pending before the said grand jury, and 

 that deponent appeared before the said grand jury on the date afore- 

 said, and testified under oath as to the result of the analysis made by 

 liim of the substances so delivered to him by the said agent, stating 

 in each instance that the analvsis made bv him showed the substance 

 to be oleomargarine, colored by the introduction of foreign material 

 in imitation of yellow butter; that deponent was specific in his testi- 

 mony as to the substance purchased from each of the defendants 

 against whom the indictments were so pending as aforesaid, and in 

 each instance produced before the said grand jury a complete state- 

 ment from his books showing the result of the analysis in each case. 



F. T. ASCHMAN, 



Chemist of (he Dairy and Food Division of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Sworn to and subscribed before nie this 21th day of September, 

 A. D. 1901. 

 Geo. W. Miller, 



Clerk of the Court. 



