DEFRAUDING THE UNSUSPECTING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14039, 23 April 1920, Page 5

DEFRAUDING THE UNSUSPECTING.

Fifteen summonses for offences under the Me re ha rictisv Marks Act in regard to the advertising ami salt* of saccharin tablets Kcri' dealt with by .Mr F. T. d' Ky rtcourt at the Maryle'bone Police Court.. London. latch. Militina Fia:— jiictti. tin- maker <>t saccharin tablets [and soap, trvvciinir as the H. ami A. Trading Company m London, "New York. I Pijria. lirussels, arid Mel!>ourne. was charged with selling saccharin tablets to which a false trade description wa- apto the effect that they contained half anrl a. ouarter grain of saccharin of the strength of thiety-three. when. itt ta< t. they only contained half those <|iianticie»: and applying the. fata* description t<; the tablets in invoice* and ;idvertiseruents. Her son-m-!aw\ Achille l:as.\ who is the manager ot' the business. ami Adolpb FJa.ihibene. the chemist. were aNo summoned for aiding and abetting Militina Fiashetti in the sale ot the tablets with the false description. fr wa> alleged that for months advertise men t.-t had apfteart'd in trade iocritals offering the (platter-grain taf>U at :ls a thousand, and the halfI grain at ■"?. and when, purchase* were [ made it was found that the so-called ; '/uarter-graiin tablets contained less than one-ei-gpith. and the wvcallcd .halfgrain tablets [ess than ode-quarter of a. grain of saccharin. Thi.- shorta'ge. it w.i- contended. was deliberate. 'and was a fraud on the public. [t vva> -tated that when the defendants h.ni -is machines they wore sellii: lc from 2(H) to 2-jO thousand tablets per dav: now they were producing about aiH> thousand. Mr d'Kyru'ourt said it seemed to him I,at the bu-inesN. had been carried onwith tl:e tfioHt deliberate intention to defraud. 'He fitted Militiua "Fiashetti •• total of £2O on four of the summonses. or oue month's imprisonment, and tined the other two defendants (Mu manager fid the chemist) a total of £ejo each, with 40gns costs against ; i ach of them, or two months' imprisonment in default. i