4862, Alleged misbranding of " Clay's Sure Cure."    V. S.     *     *     *     v. Ed??
ward J. ICleffier, doing, business as Edward J. Kieffer & Son.    Tried&
to the court and a jnry.     Verdict of acquittal.     (F.  & D. No.  6608,
I. S. No. 10804-e.)
On December 14, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District?
of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district an information against?
Edward J. Kieffer, doing business as Edward J. Kieffer & Son, Savannah,?
Ga., alleging shipment by said defendant, in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act, as amended, on or about March 8, 1913, from the State of Georgia into?
the State of South Carolina, of a quantity of an article, labeled in part, '' Clay's?
Sure Cure," whi^h was misbranded.
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed the product to be essentially a hydroalcoholic solution^?
containing 9.3 per cent of alcohol by volume, 25.3 grams per 100 cc of solids;?
16.6 grams per 100 cc of sucrose, and 5.8 grams per 100 c,c of potassium iqdid,-?
colchicine, nitrite, sarsaparilla, licorice, and small amounts of ammonium sajt;?
bicarbonate chlorate, salicylic acid, and salicylates were absent.
Misbranding of the article was alleged, in substance, in the information for?
the reason that certain statements appearing on its label falsely and fraudu??
lently represented it as a sure cure for gout and rheumatism, and as a remedy?
for gout and rheumatism in all its forms, when, in truth and in fact, it was not?-
On March 10, 1916, the case having come on for trial before the court and?
a jury, after the submission of evidence and arguments by counsel, the case?
was given to the jury, which, after due deliberation, returned a verdict of not?
guilty.
OAKL VEOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture,
492	
BUREAU  OF  CHEMISTRY.	
[Supplement 28.