FRAUDS CHARGED IN REPORT. 117 



If these bundles had contained more than two Only two skins 



in a bundle. 



skins, such fact would have been known to the 

 London firm; but it is specifically stated by them 

 that they never found more than two sealskins 

 in any of the bundles consigned to them by 

 the Alaska Commercial Company during- the 

 nineteen years of the lease. 1 This evidence is 

 further supported by the testimony of the vice- 

 president of the Alaska Commercial Company, 

 who made the annual examination of a few 

 skins from each cargo when the quota arrived at 

 San Francisco ; 2 by the sworn statements of the 

 packer of the sealskins ; 3 by the foreman of the 

 stevedores who unloaded the company's steamer; 4 

 and by Capt. Erskine, who has commanded 

 the company's steamer for over twenty years. 5 

 Those who are familiar with the handling of raw Three skins in a 



bundle would be 



sealskins state that three skins could not be detected. 

 rolled in a bundle without exposure of such fact, 

 and that it would be impossible to roll four skins 

 together under any circumstances. 6 This fact 

 was further verified by Maj. W. H. Williams, 

 who made a special investigation on this point 

 in 1892. 7 



better from C. M. Lampson & Co., post p. 415; Alfred Eraser, 

 post p. 415. 



2 Gustave Mebaum, post p. 382. 



3 Martin Myer, post p. 380. 



4 James B. Brown, post p. 358. 



5 M. C. Erkine, post p. 360. 



"Martin Myer, post p. 380; Gustave Nicbaum, post p. 382, 



' W. H. Williams, post p. 399. 



