TRADE SECRETS SOLD
AMERICAN SENT TO PRISON Berlin, February 19. An exceptional commercial espionage trial in which the business world is keenly interested has ended in Guido Meise'l, an American subject, and director of an American dye company, being sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, and fined £250 and ordered to pay £3OO damages to chemical firms. He was charged with improperly buying secrets from a chemist employed by the German Dye Trust. Meisel was arrested last June, and never allowed bail. His wife was only permitted to see him once a week, and then forced to talk in German in the presence of witnesses The trial was conducted in camera.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 122, 21 February 1928, Page 8
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