GERMAN ESPIONAGE TRIAL
AMERICAN SUBJECT SENT TO GAOL. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, February 19. (Received Feb. 20, at 1.30 p.m.) An exceptional commercial espionage trial in which the business world is keenly interested is ended. Guido Meisel, an American subject, director of an American dye company, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, fined £250 sterling, and orderd to pav £3OO damages to chemical firms. He was charged with improperly buying secrets from a chemist employed in the German Dye Trust. Meisel was arrested last June, and was never allowed bail. His wife was only permitted to see him weekly, when he was forced to talk German in the presence of a witness. The trial was conducted in camera.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20337, 20 February 1928, Page 10
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