GERMAN JUSTICE
AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN GAOLED AND FINED PROTECTING DYE SECRETS By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. BERLIN, Sunday. An exceptional commercial espionage trial in which the business world has been keenly interested ended when Guido Meisel, an American subject and director of an American dye company, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined £250 and ordered to pay £3OO damages to chemical firms. Meisel was charged with improperly buying secrets from a chemist employed by a German dye trust. He was arrested last June and never allowed bail. His wife was only permitted to see him weekly, and then was forced to talk German in the presence of witnesses. The trial was conducted in camera.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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120GERMAN JUSTICE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 9
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