18881. Adulteration of   chocolate-covered   Tvine   jellies.    U.   S.   v.   Ninety
1-Pound Boxes of Choeolate-Covered Wine Jellies. Default de- 
cree   of   condemnation,  forfeiture,  and  destruction.     (F.  &  D.  No.
26480.    I. S. No. 24466.    S. No. 4777.)
Samples of confectionery from the shipment herein described having been 
found to contain alcohol, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the matter to 
the United States attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
On June 12, 1931, the United States attorney filed in the District Court of the 
United States for the district aforesaid a libel praying seizure and condemna- 
tion of ninety 1-pound boxes^f chocolate-covered wine jellies, remaining in the 
original unbroken packages at Chicago, Ill., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by Widmer's Grape Products Co.. from Naples, N. Y., April 30 1931, 
and had been transported from the State of New York into the State of Illinois, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it consisted 
in part of spirituous liquor, to wit, alcohol.
On October 12, 1931, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.