New-York tribune., 1900-08-02
GOSLIN APPEARS AGAIN.
LY IMPORTED. SEIZED BY BID
WELLS MEN.

The customs authorities yesterday seized three
cases of drugs which they asserted had been
illegally brought into this country by two men
named Goslin and Bogart. representative of
Collector Bidwell. in making known the seizure.
said he understood that the two men concerned
none other than Alfred r. iosn and Henry
Bogart who were indicted for conspiracy to de-
press the stock of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company. According the meagre facts given
out a the Custom House yesterday afternoon Col
lector Bidwell in consequence of information that
he received to the effect that Goslin and BOgart
Illegally bringing phenacetine into this coun-
try. instructed his inspectors to watch the two
men AS a result of their surveillance the in
spectors a wagon driven TO Goslins house on
the upper West Side of the city and three cases
put into the wagon. The cases were removed TO
a small warehouse in Fourteenth-st.
Obtaining search warrant from Commissioner
Shields, officers visited the warehouse and con-
hscated the three cases. which were found to con-
tain mostly phenacetine, but also quantity OF
sulphonaI salol and sulphur. Beyond adding that
the drug house of Scheffelin & Co. was the only
firm which owned the right to imoprt phenacetine
into this country the Custom House officials would
give out no further particulars. They observed
unusual reticence in the matter, and refused to tell
whether Goslin and Bogart would be arrested,
what Inspector made the seizure the address or
Goslins house on the upper West Side. the value
of the drugs and they declined also to explain the
nature of the inegality that charged against
the
From other sources, however. 1t learned that
the value Of the goods about $3.50, and that
they were seized by Inspector Davidson. The house
from which the drugs taken is at No 677
West End-ave., and is occupied by Gosln while
the warehouse in Fourteenth-st. is situated near
the North River. AS the law regarding the sale in
this country and manufacture of phenacetine APP
pears somewhat involved. 1t would be interesting TO
know upon just what grounds the seizure was
made. The Custom House people, it seems, were
somewhat in error in stating that the right OF i'm
porting phenacetine belonged to Schieffen & Co.
Phenacetine is made solely in Germany, but 1t can be
manufactured by any one under the chemical name
OF parasetphenetidin. The name of phenacetine is
copyrighted throughout the world The drug was in
vented by OskaE HindsRerg, who sold the formula TO
Reyar e. 90 ~ EtIbarfoId Cermanv for whom
Scheffelin & Co. the American selling agents
In 1898 the patent was assigned to Farbenfabrtken
of Elberfef- Company. whose offices are at No. 40
stone-st Subsequently they transferred red their
rights to Z: N. Dickerson, OF the firm OF Dlckerso9
& Brown Some time ago Mr. Dickerson discovered
buying phenacetine from wholesale dealers In Can
ada and selling 1t in the United States. Thereupon
James Despite the injunction James continued to
sell the drug secretly. and, being detected. he was
to pay $4,000 fine James has served his sentence.
but is still in prison as he is unable to pay his fine
Gosin, it is said. friend of James, and was
There 5' IS Ie duty Of s. per cent ,ad valorem
phenacetine, and unless Gos1in and Bogart SNUG
gled the phenacetne into the country, some ques-
ton exists the illegality charged by the Gus
toms Of1ClalS. Louis H. HODDy, or tne nTm OF
Scheffelin & Co. said yesterday that, while there
had been of smuggling phenacetine, there
no law to prevent its importation as a product
The only remedy the owner of the patent had was
TO obtain injunction against any one selling 1t
phenacetine. Section II of the Dingley Tariff
bill forbds the entry into this country OF any arti-
Gle Of imported merchandise (which shall copy or
simulate the trademark Of any domestic
manufacture manufacturer" PhenaCetlne, how
ever. is not a domestic manufacture, but is made
in Germany.
Inspector Davidson. when he found yester-
day at Pier 81, North River. said he had been in
structed to talk about the At the recent
trial of Gosn in connection with the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit proceedings, Gosln was found guilty
and sentenced to six months Imprisonment and TO
pay $500 fine. He secured a stay. and Is now At
liberty bail. pending the hearing OF his appeal
Bogart acquitted for lack Of evidence.
Alfred r. Gosln was seen at his home, NO. 6If
West End-ave., last evening
THE first information I had in connection with
the matt tAP; he said was when reporter called
at my Office this afternoon. 1 have never handled
any kind of drugs. While was talking to the re-
porter my brOther-in-law, Thomas Gibbons. a com
mission merchant at No. 20 BToad-st, called me
up on che telephone and asked me to go on his
bond to 3replevin some goods which had been at
tached by Custom House officers. He said that
few days ago he bought goods from a firm
House official.
my brother-in-law said that he had taken his
lawyer J. C. Lazarus, TO the Custom House, and
that Lazarus had offered to give bonds. but that
'"The seizure was instigated by a firm which
claims that II has the patent TO manufacture phe-
nacetine IN this country. There are six firms in
81 to 81 so a pound for it. while this firm in this
city charges 81 ounce for the drug. They want
to sell II to the trade here. while anybody who is
willing to pay the duty has a right to bring 1t