The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-02-23

Over Five Hundred Druggists 10 Be
Prosecuted,
For Selling Bogus Carter Little Liver
PiIia.

manufacturing druggiss named Luxon I.
finch. - under ball charged with q stu pend
ons fraud upon the public Finch lives &C No.
= No 8 Cold street on sSs ..rs a q
dence 10 the effect that he has been imitaennw
trade marks and hoodiHg the market with b.
aEAinst him. Yesterday Recorder em Win issued
warrant for his arrest, which Detective
Herman executed.
Armed with search warrant which had also
been Issued by Recorder smyth. Defective
Won Gertehten and assistants, raided the DIli
factory In Gold street. Here different samples
OF over ten thousand fraudulent limitations
OF trade mark were found.
. Inc story OF the alleged fraud is this: Mr
Brent Good. OF No: .! Murray street. IL mana
alton formed under the general law 81 the
state OF New York The companv owns \
trade mark which lie an xed 10 q valuable man
nfacture known as Carriers Little Liver
PIlls." Wishing TO retire from business DR..
Carter sold the trade mark and rood will and
tull right TO manufacture his specialtv to
the concern TO the corporation Known a. az
Garter Medicine Company." Over a 60 90
have been spent by the present concern IN al.
Eerttsing their business
About three months ago Manager Brent
Sood Was informed that Luxon j. Finch, OF
0oid street, was manufacturing pills IN enor.
m .sgs .S 9aIr,. ~ and putting them up n
Carter Medicine Company-that he had In fact
made pill identical In appearance 20 the
CAsoI L.bto LN CT rliit packed In similar
bottle 10 that employed by the company, and
wrapped both up in label which was NOTHING
more or less than an tmpudent imitation Of
the genuine one.
81 furthermore learned" explained Mr..
Good, that hundreds of druggists were being
supplied by Finch with bogus Little Liver
Pills. and that the fraud was becoming more
general from the fact that the false mann fac
turer was IN the hit Of inserting In the In bal
or wrapper the name OF any retailer who
might desire 10 to be done, and while the spu-
rteus article was being sold at ten cents bot.
tie the genuine coat twenty. i've cents. OF
course these retailers were parties 20 the
fraud and all are liable TO prosecution. We
have their names. over one hundred of them
have drug stores In New York"
The Carter Medicine Company 10 q lawfully
organized corporation with It's own valid trade
mark acquired from its origina tor DIR. Carter,
who begun to use 10 IN 1870 The trade mark
was continuously used by the corporation and
It's predecessors TO designate the precise kind
Of goods TO which IL 10 applicd-namely the
Little Liver Pills.
These pills have always been put up In
wrappers similar In size. color. design and
arrangement of words. At the time of its
adoption no other person, persons. nrm or cor
Poration hAd sueha wrapper In use for SINH
lar goods
"fInch has made himself amenable to thu
criminal law. The Grand Jury has indicted
him OF the crime Of knowingly selling an arti-
Gle of merchandise to which was am xed an
imitation OF the trade mark Of another with
out the latter's consent. The evidence we
have against him will enable us, IL we wish to
do so. TO convict him OF fraud on different
charges exactly 80 times. The punishment In
imprisonment for not more than $500, or both"
The managers of Carriers Little Liver Pills
intend prosecuting every retail druggist In
the United States that has sold the pirated
imitation of their Pills-and there are over
i've hundred of them In New York city alone.