, 1874-03-03
THE COURTS.
Corntcrfciting of Worcestershire
Sauce.
Unsatisfactory Conclusion Of the Ken
nedy Case.



John ". Len, @. W. Iea, and j. D. Perkins,
copartncrs as Lea Il Perkins, Of Worcester, ELL
glan1, and manufacturers Of tho well-kuown
" Worcestershire Sauce, tloa bill III the United
States District Court against Charles Hastings.
Complainants aBsert TINT they aro tho original
manufacturers Of the Worcestershire Sauce"
and haye been for tho past thirty yours. Thor
sauce il put up in bottles with fno naulo blown
in, aud with red label constituting their trade
mark having their names and tho words
"Worcestershiro Sauco" printed thereon.
white label, smaller III sixe, containing
directions, III also pasted on eaoh bottle.
These wrappors OF different character aro put
around oach bottle. They have lately ascertain
cd TINT one Charles Hastings, OF Chicago, il
manufacturing IN Grlcle IT. snar IN outward a.
nlBo 40 much alike TINT nono but al export would
be- likely to dotoct the ditroronco. They olaim
TINT thor trAdo and reputation arc seriously af-
footed; thlt tho imitation Of Hastings il very
close, and ho il selling llia production as gonu-
ino. An injunction il therefore asked aud an
account.
Filed with the bill are two af.idavits, ono by
James N. Steele, Of the firm OF Farweli, Steelo
Horny IL. Collyor, counsel i'll the present case.
Hastings has sold his firm lis imitation as such,
but alleging that it is as good aB the originnE.
hlr. Collyor. who il from Now York, statos that
lie has beeu as the attorney for Ica l. Perkins,
engaged for somo yoars iii prosecuting infringe,
mc1lts Of their sauce. somo tin,o ago ho yisiled
Hastings at his manafactory, No. 24l South
Halsted street, representing himself as
doslriols Of purchasing some Of tho
de[cudant'a Bauco Hastings told him that tho
prico Of tic caaos ,yaB $50 for those containing
small azoil bottles, and $65 for those containing
the lnrger Bixe Collyor noticed that tho bottles
were labled like the gonuiuo, tho Wrappers idon-
tical. mud the bottles packsd IN Gay. Gke !, hoa 4
| ufacture aa tho gonuine; that no ono would
| know tile difference thut he had sold to Far
| we'll, Steele, l. prAtt, to Phil Conloy, Of tho
1t. Charles Hotol, anapthors. and thought LIS
article WIS nearly as good III the original. Coll
yer however states that tho component paris Of
tho imitation arc poor and often disgusting, aud
thut it docs not cost 10 much az the origin1l.
1t will bo seen by carefully comparing tho gen.
Of which aro attached to tho bill, that tharo III a
| considerable difference III the sixo OF tllD type.
| In the Original thoro arc two lines Of itallc, III
bold sizo, willis in tho counterfeit it IL very
small. Tho printing, too, seems much batter in
the original. Tho Wrappers, however,. are very
oloBo limitations, and caunot easily be dtsti'i-
| gu,shed Altogether, the imitation, ~ Il bnn!t-
deteotor would say1 ia O "yery dangerous coull-
torfoit." ..... ....
THE KENNEDY CASE.
Tho habeas corpus in the well-lsno wn Ellen
Kennedy caao was'at last discharged yesterday
by Judge Williams. A provisional ord;sr to tllat
| effect had been enserad Fridny II no moro eYl-
douco waH introduced. MIR. Moran hAd offered
questioning hor he ascertnined that she could
only aay that Ellen had not nlept with her on the
night Of her disappoaranco. He then stated that
llo !lnd nothing moro to ofEor, and tho rule waa
YllH has been q very remarkable cnBe. About
nine months ago Ellen Disappeared from tile
Chicago Orphan Asylum at about o'clock ono
Sunday night. The child bud been ssme time III
tho Asylum, and the mother wRa openly making
attempts to get her away. Ellon, however,
showed groat reluctance about returning home.
Tho day before sho disappeared an order waH
made IN the County oourt apponttng guardian 5n
mothorH doings to get hor back.
Tho officers Ut the Asylum, who hnyo all boon
exa,nlnod. clalm that Ellen probably run away to
prevent being returned to her mother o'
TINT she llns obtained posHoHalon OF her secretly
Tho friends Of tho mother nllego that she was
sp1ritod hway, by spne one connected with tho
ASYLUM, to nroyont tho guardian taking charge
OF hor. Aoting Oh this, they suo'l out u writ q
habeas corpus, aud at tiTerant Intervals, aH eacl
party could bo found and served, tho oifleers md
oethcra who might DO supposed to know were
shnrply arl minutey examined. They a.!
agroed that tlley know nothing oi
tho child'H whereabouts they Aau neyot
Beon or heard Of her hinco her disappearance
, md what soe1ns very strange, never lnsdo an,
inquiries sbout lier sudden disappearance. i
, acelns worry remarkable that, II tho o'icera d
the Asylum had nothing to doswitl Elon's flight
they should llaye Hllown no o4rioHity,; ai,t
, could have, alone been able to hide hersel
, ! from tho search that laa bean made. On th'
other hand, it IL not to DO supposed that til,
, officers, lnany Of high social standing, wonlt
to tiHsue Of llos,, nor, il thoy Ind, wouls
, they huye boon abla to withstnna tho search
t i,lg cross-oxa,.Iination they have undergone
t lilo oaso is AZ prosont apparently enveloped !,