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Show Counterfeiter Gets Stiff Sentence. William Fink, a Brooklyn, N. T., dealer In drugs, was sentenced by the New York Court of Special Sessions, to imprisonment imprison-ment in the penitentiary at hard labor, for four months. The charge was counterfeiting coun-terfeiting the trade-mark for Carter's Little Lit-tle Liver Pills, In violation of the penal law. The Carter Medicine Company detected the counterfeit before any quantity of the spurious goods had been placed upon the market. In sentencing Fink, Judge Deuel laid special stress upon the Injury done to the public when a remedy so well known as Carter's Little Liver Pills Is counterfeited counter-feited and put on the market. He imposed im-posed the sentence not only as the proper prop-er punishment of Fink himself, but in order or-der to deter others from the commission of like frauds In the future. |