Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29
COUNTERFEIT PILLS.
Millions of Bogus Liver Stimulants in
sd Fineh's Mint.
1t Is Raided on the Complaint of the Car
ter Medicine Company-Big SwindIe
on the Bilious Public.

with stupendOus fraud upon the puDflc.
Finch lives at No. $40 Pleasant avenue,
and runs drug factory at No. 36 Sold
street. On the strength of evidence to
the effect that he has been initiating
trade marks and flooding the market
with bogus pills, the grand jury has
found a true bill against him. YesteT-
day Recorder Smyth issued warrant for
his arrest, which Detective Herman exc
cuted
Ny business is ruinedl'' exclaimed
Finch, throwing up his hands when
Herman made him his prisoner. Ny
business is ruined.'' repeated the un-
happy man, as tears rolled down his
cheeks, "and m a ruined mani
Armed with search warrant which
had also been issued by Recorder Smyth,
Detective Won Gerichten and assistants
raided the pill factory in Gold street.
Here different samples of over ten thous-
and fraudulent limitations OF trade mark
were found. These with enough pills 10
restore the shattered nerves OF a nation
were seized by the searching party and
stored away in the receiving vaults under
the district attorneys office.
The story Of the alleged fraud IS this
Mr.. Brent Good Of No. 81 Murray street
is manager of the Carter medicine COM
pany, a corporation formed Under the
general law OF the state of New York.
The company owns a trade mark, which
is affixed To a valuable manufacture
known as ''Carter' ; Little Liver Pills. -
This trade mark was originally
adopted in 1874 by DR.. Carter,
a well-known physician in his
day. Wishing to retire from business
DR.. Carter sold the trade mark and good
viii and fun right to manufacture his
speciality To persons who in 1880 sold out
their interest in the concern to the cOTpO-
ration known us the Garter Medicine
Company. - over 81 900 600 have been
spent by the present concern in advertis-
ing their business.
About three months ago Manager Brent
Good was Informed that Luzon J Finch
Of Gold street was manufacturing pills in
enormous quantities and putting them up
in style similar TO that of the genuine
pills Of the Carter Medicine Company
that he had i'm fact made pill Identical
in appearance 10 the Garter Little Liver
Pill, - packed ii i'll a similar bottle to
that employed by the company and
wrapped both up in a label which was
nothing more or less than an mpudent
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 manufacturer was in the habit
of inserting in the label or wrapper the
name of any retailer who might desire it
to be done, and while the spurious article
was being sold at ten cents bottle the
genuine one cost twenty-five cents. OF
course these retailers were parties to the
fraud and are all liable TO prosecution
We have their names, Over one hundred
of them have drug stores in New York. D
Joseph E. Moore, of No. l35 Newark
avenue, Jersey City is a retail druggist
for many years in business. With sew
eral other gentlemen of his profession he
has been subp9naed as a witness by AS
sistant District Attorney John D. Lind
say, who is conducting the case for the
Carter people.
Two New York druggists who will as
sist the prosecution are J W. Linton. of
Seventeenth street and Fourth avenue,
and Frederick ID. Brown of No. pa Sixth
avenue. Finch sold Linton one gross of
the bogus pills. A Journal reporter saw
the bill of sale and the goods themselves.
Brown was supplied with 90 600 Little
Liver Pills Finch was accommodating
enough to furnish printed wrappers tell
ing Brown to save money and pack the
pills himself.
Assistant District Attorney John D.
Lindsay explained the situation to the
Journal reporter in this way:
1.-The Carter Medicine company is a
lawfully organized corporation with its
own valid trade mark acquired from its
originator, DR.. Carter, who began to
use it in 1876. The trade mark was con-
tinuousiy used by the corporation and its
predecessors to designate the precise Kind
OF goods to which It is applied--nameiy
the Little Liver Pills.
''These pills have always been put up
IN wrappers similar in size, color, de-
sign and arrangement of words. At the
time of its adoption no other person per
sons, firm or corporation had such 8
wrapper in use for similar goods.
1.-THE trade mark ana the wrapper or
label bearing it have been fraudulently
initiated by this man Finch and affixed to
goods of the same general description as
the genuine ones. The words on the
wrapper are-to use a legal phrase
wholly or in part the same TO the eye and
in sound to the ear as the words cOHsti-
tuting the genuine trade mark which des-
ignates the genuine manufacture.
The color Of the wrapper, the print
ing thereon ana the general appearance
of the false are the same rs the genuine.
as may be seen by comparison A variety
Of clumsy devices has been resorted to by
the hill counterfeiter in order to evade
the law THE most notable being the sub
stitution of the letter n for the letter
GO III the word Garter, thus making
Or. Carter 5 Little Liver Pills read DR..
Harter Little Liver Pills. This, how
ever, IS only one instance out of several
Thousand In Finch 5 Office we found a
complete record of 10, 600 differently de-
signed limitations, only Us of which, rs
far as we can ascertain, have been
foisted upon the market during the last
six months.
'Fnch has made himself amenable
20 the criminal law. The grand
jury has indicted him for the
crime of knowingly selling an ar
ticle of merchandise TO which was af-
fixed All imitation of the trademark of
another without the latter consent.
The evidence we have against him will
enable Us, if we wish 10 Go so, to con-
Wet him of fraud on different charges /
exactly go times. The punishment is
imprisonment for not more than enc
year, or a fine of not more than $500, or
both.
Before Recorder Smyth the prisoner |
pleaded ''not guilty Lawyer Ambrose |
Purdy, who represented him, applied for |
bail, which was fixed at $1,000. Albert |
Plaut Of Lehn x Fink, the wholesale /