United States v. Cobb

MORRIS, District Judge.

The indictment sets forth that a certain John L- Alcock was engaged in the business of exporting lumber from the port of Baltimore to the port of Hamburg, Germany, and the defendant Cobb was the agent of a line of steamships called the “Hamburg-American Line,” engaged in transporting merchandise between ports of the United States and said port of Hamburg, Germany, and that on April 17, 1905, at Baltimore, Cobb, as agent of said line of vessels, issued to said Alcock a bill of lading for 31 walnut logs to be carried from Baltimore to Hamburg, and did insert in said bill…