3855. Adulteration of cream.   U. S. v. Alexander F. PUclier.   Plea of guilty.   Fine, $10.   (F. &
D.No. 267-0.)
At the October, 1914, term of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia,?
holding a criminal term, the grand jurors of the United States of America within and?
for said District, acting upon a report of the health officer of the District aforesaid,?
upon presentment by the United States attorney for said District, returned an indict??
ment against Alexander F. Pilcher, late of the District aforesaid, charging shipment?
by said defendant from the State of Virginia into the District of Columbia, and the?
sale by said defendant at the District aforesaid, on January 29, 1914, of a quantity of?
cream which was adulterated.
Adulteration was charged in the indictment for the reason that a valuable con??
stituent of said article of food, to wit, butter fat, had been abstracted wholly and in?
part therefrom.
On December 12, 1914, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the indictment,?
and the court imposed a fine of $10.
CARL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11, 1915.
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