CHARGES AGAINST SWISS.
VERDICT OP NOT GUILTY.
DIRECTION OF JUDGE
. On tho direction of Mr. Justice Blair, ■who held that the Crown had not establisher its case the jury that considered the charges of false pretences and theft levelled against the younjfr Swiss, Maurice Emile Gander, in the Supreme Court yesterday, returned a verdict of not guilty.
His Honor commented that the witness Thompson had admitted that the'patent for tho advertising scheme, over which the complications for Gander have arisen, ■would have been made out in the latter's name but for the fact that he. was" a foreigner. It was clear also that the patent did not protect people from^erecting similar advertising models "to that marketed by accused. The name only was protected. In regard to the theft charge accused claimed the articles as his own, and civil notion only could decide tho rights of that.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 16
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