MOUSE IN SAUSAGE

Evening Star, Issue 20862, 4 August 1931, Page 7

MOUSE IN SAUSAGE

BLACKMAIL CASE WOMAN GAOLED. LONDON, July 2(5. The Berlin correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that following the pigeon plot an attempt at blackmail through the instrumentality of a white mouse has also failed. An .angry woman entered a Cologne store and produced a baked liver sausage containing a mouse browned on one side. She threatened publicity unless the firm reinstated her son, whom they had recently discharged. The firm enlisted the services of the veterinary high school, which reported that the mouse had been well nourished and tame. It had not passed through the mincer, because it was not minced, nor through the filling machine, because it was not baked all over. The storekeeper charged the mother and son with collusive blackmail, _ and the court sentenced them to imprisonment for four months and two months respectively. A similar incident in 1929 ruined one reputable Cologne firm. [The case recalls that in which some years ago a well-known Sydney _ catering firm' was defendant in an action for damages, it being alleged that a mouse was found in a meat pio served to the plaintiff. The defendant firm was vindicated by the trial.]