Shepsel Zwee (“Shepsel” means sheep in Yiddish), a kosher butcher at 16 Delmonico place, Brooklyn, was held for Special Sessions by Magistrate Gaspar J. Liota in Bridge Plaza Court on a charge of selling non-kosher chickens.
The charge had been preferred by Inspectors Harry Lamb and Joseph Steer of the Retail Kosher Meat Trade Code Authority. The prosecution is part of a Code Authority campaign against sale of non-kosher meat as kosher.
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