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ments as to the recovery of property and admission of guilt made by the said Thomas J.Tate to Captain Pumphrey, and also with respect to disposition made by him of the stolen goods.
After going into the matter fully, the Board decided that the claimants of property, as above, were rightful owners aria directed the Secretary to delivery same to them, respectively.
(See statements on file with orders for the delivery of the property in question).
Complaint of John M.Nicholai.
Mr. John M.Nicholai called upon the Board and complained as he had previously done to one of the members of the Board^ that on the early morning of Wednesday IIovember 5, 19G2, he left the office of the Sun, where he is employed,rode on a car of the Madison Avenue Line and alighted therefrom at Eutaw & Baltimore streets, and started from that point hurridly to
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reach his home on West Baltimore street near Fremont; that when at the Corner of Eutaw & Baltimore he had heard report of a revolver and paid no attention to it; that when he reached the corner of Paca & Baltimore streets, he was overtaken by Sergeant Singer and two patrolmen, whose names he does not know, upon the accusation of having fired the pistol, report of which he had heard when on the corner of Baltimore & Eutaw streets; that he was taken back to the neighborhood of Eutaw & Baltimore sts., one of the officers stating that he had seen Mr. Nicholai fire the pistol, and the other officer stated that Mr. Nicholai was the offender. While he and the officers were Btanding near Eutaw & Baltimore streets after his arrest, ~>ne Abe Ulnann, who keeps a saloon on South Paca street said to the officers, he, Mr. Kicholai, was not the man who fired the pistol; that he, Ulmann, had seen Mr. Nicholai alight from the Car on the corner of Baltimore & Eutaw Streets; that upon the statement of Mr. Ulmann the officers let him go.
Mr. Nicholai while not objecting to the fact that he had been overtaken and detained, such action on the part of the officers was reasonable, in as much as he had hurriedly left the vicinity of Baltimore & Eutaw streets at the time the shot was
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