| Show SALE OP OF GRAPE JUICE UPHELD Court Rules Eules Not Com Com- Company's Company's pany's Fault If It Turns Tubs Into Wine INDIANAPOLIS I DIA APOLIS Dee Dec Iy Dy Ey EyThe The Associated Salo Press Press Sale o ot of grapo in Its It unfermented state even though It may turn t twine to wine with an unlawful content o ot of alcohol after atter It Is in th the hands of ot ofa a a. purchaser does don not constitute a a. conspiracy to violate tho the Vol act according to a a. Jury In federal court here The Theo Jury jur yesterday found three officials and a I sales sales- salesman salesman Ies- Ies man man of t the United Vineyards as as- and the Call Cali California s of oC Chicago not gull gull- II- II fornia Vineyards company ty of ot conspiracy to M t violate the theo Vol Vol- stead tend law b. b t by y selling sellin such grape gr pe Julep juice The m men mn n discharged dl were ere Elmer Elmr ElmerI I r. r Carl A A. Fuller Futter Lester Hines and T I n. n Grable officers and salesmen of the th twp two concerns IMPORTANT T CASE SC Significance was attached alt ed to the verdict of the th Jury Inasmuch as liS liSth the th companies have sold sol I their products throughout the country countr U. U C. C YI of ot Chicago prohibition prohibition t administrator for Indiana Illinois aid ad eastern Wisconsin came to t Indianapolis to observe the trial of ot the four tour men and said ald be before be- be before fore tore the case cue went tnt to the Jury jur that thai In event of ot conviction action would be taken against similar operators In other ether cities titles George I L. L Winkler deputy pro pro- prohibition NO- NO administrator for r Indians Indiana said he would continue to press the case on other evidence The government lo had attempted to show that while hll the companies had not actually violated the law Jaw In selling the grape rape Juice they had entered Into nto I a a. conspiracy with customers by hy selling gelling them a a. beverage which would become Intoxicating SOLD WITH WARNING G District Attorney Albert Ward charged charl ed that the United Vineyards company sold the grape Juice with warnings that If It the product was not kept keN In a II cool coo place and ex- ex exposed posed rosed to air all It would turn to wine The company sold various grades of th the Juice which It was WM claimed turned Into several era ae varieties of ot wines nu I Attorneys Attorney's for tor the defendants die dis disclaimed I claimed responsibility for tor the tha al alleged d- d alleged violation of ot the law and declared de do- I dared that the only unlawful act was as In the manner In which the Jape grape juice was handled by cus cus- customers customers customers If they allowed It to turn to wine Officials of ot the company Indicated ed they the might continue to sell their products The overt act charged charled In the Indictment was the tho selling sellin ot of f a II gallon five keg kel of ot Tape grape Juice to a II stenographer In Inkler's of ot- office office fice flee the Juice later turning to wine containing containing- It was waa alleged 1285 per cent alcohol |
