Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-14

requirements of this law
They were held for the grand jury and
indictments followed. Tie cases were never
brought to trial, however, because District
Attorney Birney, at the direction, it is
said, of the Treasury Department authori-
ties, went before Justice Cole and noile
pressed the cases. 1t was generally under
stood that this action on the part of the
treasury officials was brought about by the
fact that the accused parties paid the gov
eminent the full money penalty provided
by the law in order to escape the impris-
onment feature. which public trial would
nave probably added to their sentence.
Eject of The Stars Position.
The publication of these facts in The
Star Of November 2, and the editorial
which followed in the issue of November
5. brought the Treasury Department people
to an appreciation of the fact that there
was newspaper in Washington which pro-
posed to expose and push to punishment
those persons who were violating the laws
of the United States and imposing upon
the purchasing public and at the same time
sWindling such purchasers extensively by
selling them cheap limitations of butter I'M
der the guise of the genuine article and re-
ceiVing the price usually paid for the lat
ter
The commissioner of internal revenue, Mr.
Miller. and his deputy, Mr.. Wilson, as well
as Chief Colquitt of the division of revenue
agents, had not been acquainted with the
general and widespread existence of the
evi. in this city and District until the APP
pearance of the article In The Star, and they
Immediately proceeded to take vigorous
steps to bring those who were engaged in the
imposition to justice and punishment There
Is no further need for continued silence on
the part of The Star now, for the internal
revenue officials have been engaged for sew
eral days past in securing samples of what
Is sold for butter at nearly every market,
grocery and provision store in the city of
Washington, and the hundreds of samples
thus procured are now undergoing analysis.
The local internal revenue authorities re-
ceived orders several days ago from the
main office of this district in Baltimore in
structing them to use every effort to secure
samples of the butter or what was repre-
seDted to be butter sold everywhere In
Washington.
Bowen, the Terror, is Here.
Chief Colquitt at the same time ordered
Special Agent Pennell. who has been engag-
ed in prosecuting offenders against the oleo-
margarine laws in Ohio, and Special Agent
Bowen from Covlngton, KY, to this city to
take charge of and direct the work. Special
Agent Bowen Is known among the dealers
and manufacturers of oleomargarine, but
terine and other limitations of butter as their
most obdurate official enemy, and they have
a wholesome dread Of him. He has been pres
ent In Washington since Monday afternoon,
Special Agent Pencil having preceded him
by couple of days. and the result of his
Investigations here as well as those Of the
others who are engaged In the campaign
against imposition and fraud will be shown
in a few days, when criminal prosecutions
will be brought against the very large num-
Der of those who have sold oleomargarine in
violation of the laws governing such sales.
1t Is the intention of the government
officials to push all cases thus brought
with vigorous energy, and each separate
case will be fortified by the testimony of
10 r.I1<
ter from the persons charged with selling
1t and the analysis of the sample SO pro-
cured sworn to by expert chemists, who
are now engaged upon the analysis
Civil Suits Brought Today.
This afternoon the first broadside into
the ranks of the alleged violators of the
oleomargarine law was fired on the civil
side of the courts, when four suits were
Instituted by Mr.. Clarence A. Brandenburg
for James F. Oyster against Frederick W.
Enrich; for Charles C. Barber against
Frederick W. Enrich; for James F. Oyster
against Peter c. Garden, and for Samuel
t. Murray against Peter C. Garden. The
complaints in the cases brought by Mr.
Oyster recite that the defendants, Enrich
and Garden, the former of whom conducts
various places Of business in the city of
Washington under the name of the Enrich
"
proprietor of various places of business,
did, on the Sth of October, 1895, and on
divers other days and times between that
date and the date of the commencement of
the suit at the places of business conduct
ed by them "wrorgfully, knowingly. in
juriously, deceitfuly and frauduentlv and
against the will and without the license or
consent of the said plaintiff. vend and sell
to divers persons for their own 1ucre and
gain large quantities of a certain manu-
featured substance or compound contain
ing large proportion of volatile acid
Known as butyric acid which said manu-
featured substance or compound was #
said time and still Is generally known To
the public ard called oleomargarne which
the said defendants then and there falsely.
fraudulently, deceitfully and wrongfuliv
represented to be part of the butter product
Of creameries controlled, vended and sold
by the plaintiff, and known to the public
as fancy, Elgin creamery butter"
Other Serious Declarations.
The declarations proceed to recIte that by
reason of these sales on the part of the
defendants the plaintiff has been hlndered
and prevented from selling and vending
and disposing of large quantities of the
butter product of the creameries controlled
by him which he would otherwise have
sold. He also claims that the oleomar-
garine was falsely. frauduently and de-
celtfUlly represented to be Oysters fancy
fraudulent representation has caused in
jury to the plaintiff in the sum of 5000.
Mr.. Oyster sues Mr.. Enrich and Mr.. Gar
den, therefore, for 5000 each and COSTS
Mr.. Chas. c. Barber, in his complaint
against Frederick w. Enrich. charges that
on the Sth Of October, 1895, he bought at
one of the places of the defendant one
pound OF butter, which was represented to
be what is known to the public as Oyster $
fancy Elgin creamery butter. for which the
plaintiff paid the sum of 80 cents, when in
fact the said article at the time of such
representation and sale was not Oysters
butter but was oleomargarine, of which
fact the defendant well knew at the time
Of the sale. The plain,iff declares that de-
PENDANT Enrich falsely and fraudulently
deceived him in the sale of the article, and
prays 5000 damages and costs.
Samuel T. Murray, in his suit against
Peter c. Garden. recites the same charges
as those con tanned in the suit Of Mr.. Barber
against Frederick W. Enrich. and also
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