Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-01 | Page 2 | State Health Measure Used in Prosecution

STATE HEALTH LT MEASURE USED IN PROSECUTION Thomas A. A Sumner mattress ma manufacturer and repairer charged with embezzlement of forty pounds of ot cotton from Q R. R Burch was found guilty in n Judge Noel S. S Pratts Pratt's court this morning mornin and sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- to pay a fine of ot A stay sta of c execution for ten days was granted to give opportunity for ap appeal appeal appeal ap- ap peal to the district courtOn court On another charge of ot failure to properly label mattresses sold by him Sumner was bound lound over to the district court courts court for trial It was vas alleged al- al that Sumner use used old cotton I ai-I to stuff mattresses and then sold I Ithem them as brand new mattresses In Inthe Inthe the cas case on trial evidence was Introduced in introduced introduced In- In I to the effect that Sumner I got some old cotton from a Chinaman Chinaman China China- China I man In Park City to stuff one mattress mattress mattress mat mat- tress which was alleged to have been sold as a new mattress In the embezzlement charge it was alleged that Burch sent a mattress mattress mattress mat mat- tress to Sumner for repair that Sumner removed the good cotton from it stuffed the mattress with I inferior and old cotton and returned It to the owner er Jo I Prosecution of ot Sumner was Qs brought about through the state in industria industrial in- in commission under the new law sed passed by the last legislature as a health measure requiring the labeling of ot mattresses to show whether the material used In them themIs Is new or second hand This is the first case that has been instituted under this law