794 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



3. Said vessel " Euima aud Louisa" returned to this port on or about 

 tlie lltli day of July last, aud on tlie day following 1,342 skins were 

 delivered from her at the place of business of the afore-mentioned C. D. 

 Ladd in this city. 



4. On or about the 13th day of July last, in the forenoon, I was in 

 the basement of the store of said C. 1). Ladd, on Kearny Street, in this 

 city, when George B. Barber, book-keeper for 0. D. Ladd aforesaid, 

 came down with a gentleman, whom I did not then know, but have 

 since been informed was Charles J. Behlow, one of the partners of the 

 firm of H. Liebes and Co., of this city of San Francisco. 



5. Said George B. Barber showed the gentlemau who accompa7ned 

 him, and who, as 1 have said, I subvSequently learned was Charles J. 

 Behlow, the skins that had been delivered the day previous from the 

 said vessel "Emma aud Louisa," and which were all lying in one pile 

 on the elevator as they had been delivered, when he (Cluirles J. Behlow) 

 lifted a few up from the pile, not exceeding five or six, and looked at 

 them, and then went upstairs again with said George B. Barber, aud the 

 time they were down there would not be more than five minutes. 



6. My occupation requires me to be in the basement near the elevator 

 where the skins were piled all the time, and this occasion I have men- 

 tioned is the only time I ever saw the person whom I was informed was 

 Charles J. Behlow on the premises of C. D. Ladd aforesaid. 



(Signed) J. A. Belodo. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 1st day of December, 1892. 



[seal.] (Signed) ' Charles A. Duisenberg, 



Notary Public. 



Deposition of George B. Barber. 



State of California, City and County of San Francisco. 



George B. Barber, of San Francisco, being duly sworn, deposes and 

 says: 



1. I live in the city of San Francisco, in the State of California. Am 

 a clerk in the employ of C. D. Ladd, merchant, of the city aforesaid, 

 doing business at 529 and 531, Kearny Street, and have charge of and 

 keep his books, and have been continuously in his employ for the i)ast 

 ten years. 



2. C. D. Ladd aforesaid is the owner of the sealing-vessel " Emma 

 and Louisa," of this port, and was so in the month of July last past. 



3. Said vessel "Emma aud Louisia" returned to this city from a 

 sealing voyage on the 11th day of July last, having on board 1,342 

 skins, and these skins were delivered at the place of business of the 

 aforementioned C. D. Ladd on the 12th day of the same month. 



4. In the forenoon of the day following, that is, on the 13th July, 

 Charles J. Behlow, of this city, came into the store of the aforesaid 

 C. D. Ladd and asked to see the skins which had been brought from 

 the vessel " Emma and Louisa," and I took him to the basement, where 

 they were all lying in one pile in the elevator. I made no objection to 

 his seeing the skins, as I had been informed that all seal-skins of 

 pelagic catch had to undergo inspection before any disposition could 

 be made of them, and at the same time had been told that the firm of 

 H. Liebes and Co. had been appointed by the Government the Inspect- 

 ors for that purpose, aud I knew the said Charles J. Behlow as a 

 member of the firm of H. Liebes aud Co. for many years. 



