Giesel Convicted by French Court:
A Fine of Tls. 3,000 or Three Years Imprisonment The trial of Albert Giesel, the German head' of Giesel & Ca., accused of manufacturing and selling spurious liquors, came to a dramatic end at the French Mixed Court last Friday, the defendant being ordered to pay fines and damages amounting to Tls.. 21,000. He was found guilty by the President, M. P. Crépin, and Magistrate, Nieh, of both criminal charges, and fined Tls, 3,000, with the alternative of three years' imprisonment on the first count, that of the manufacture of spurious liquor, and Tls. 500 on the second, of selling spurious liquor under false labels. In the civil actions arising out of the prosecution, the Court gave judgement in favour of Messrs, James Hennessy & Ao. for Tls. 6,000, and Messrs. Noilly Pratt Ca., for Tls. 10,000, being damages for the infringement of labels and trade marks and for damage done to the good names and reputations of these firms. Messrs. Noilly Pratt were awarded a further sum of Tls. 1,000, for expenses incurred by the firm's agents in investigating into the manufacture of liquor purporting to be their products.
The Court ordered that the costs of the prosecution be borne by Giesel. He would also be required to insert in the ''North-China. Daily News," Echo de Chine," '"Shun-pao" and "Sinwanpao," and in all foreign and Chinese newspapers in Canton, Hongkong, Hankow, Peking and Tientsin the full text of the Court's judgement, these ad-[cee expenses to be borne by Counsel in the case were: Maitre H. lo Gouellec for the prosecution and Dr. O, Fischer for.the defence.
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