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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-01
RECIPROCITY WITH SPAIN.
The New Treaty and the Diplomatic
correspondence Given Out.

| The New Treaty and the Diplomatic
correspondence Given Out.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-The Spanish re-
ciprocity treaty aud the diplomatic corre-
spondence in regard to it were made public
to-day. Two schedules are set forth, one of
which goes into effect Sept. l, 1891, and the
other July l, 1892. The first is designated
as transltory schedule. The free list en-
braces majority of the staple products of
the United States which are exported to the
Spanish islands
The following is the transitory schedule:
Products or manufactures Of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba aud Porto
Rico free OF duties; meats, in brine, salted
| or smoked; bacon, hams and meats pre-
| served in cans in lard or by extraction Of
air; Jerked beef excepted Lard, tallow
and other animal greases, melted or crude,
manufactured. Fish and she'll fish
live, fresh, dried, in brine, smoked,
picked oysters and salmon in cans. Oats,
barley, rye and buckwheat and -four of
these cereals. Starch, maizena, and other
alimentary products of corn, except corn
meal. Cotton seed, oil and meal cake of
said seed for CATTLE Hay and straw, for
forage and bran. Fruits, fresh, dried and
preserved, except raisins. Vegetables and
garden products, fresh and dried. Resin of
pine, tar, pitch and turpentine Woods of
all kinds in trunks or logs, ioists,
rafters, planks, beams, boards, round or
cyltndric-masts, although cut, planed and
tongued and grooved, including flooring
Woods for cooperage. including slaves,
headings and wooden hoops Wooden
boxes, mounted or unmounted, except of
cedar. Woods, ordinary, manufactured
into doors, frames, windows
and shutters, without paint or
varniSh, and wooden houses unmounted
without paiut or varnish. Wagons and
carts for ordinary roads and agriculture
Sewing machines. Petroleum, raw or un-
refined, according to the classification fixed
in existing orders for the importation Of
this article in said islands. Coal, minerals,
ice.
Products or manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba and Porto
Rico on payment of the duties stated: Corn
or maize, % cents per 100 kilogrammes;
corn meal, 25 cents per 100 kilogrammes
wheat, from Jan. /, 1892, 30 cents per 100
kilogrammes; wheat -four, from Jan. /,
1892 81 per 100 kilogrammes.
Products or manufactures of the United
States to be admitted into Cuba and Porto
Rico at a reduction of 25 per centum: But
ter and cheese petroleum (refned), boots
and shoes, in whole or in part of leather or
skins.
By ''definitive arrangement" which
takes effect July l, 1892 a large number Of
changes in the existing Spanish tariffs are
made, and additions are made to the free
list Among the latter are marble and
building stone and brick, iron in all shapes
from pig to wire-cloth and structural iron,
raw cotton with or without seed, machinery
of. all kinds. wagons, carts, etc., materi ais
for railway construction and for the on
struction and repair of vessels
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A WOMAN'S TALE OF SIN.
MRS. GILMER AGAIN ON TIE WIT
NESS STAND.

Her Evidence Corroborative of Fer
Confession of Shame and Crime.
DIR. Baker With Her the Day After
the Burial of His Wife-rhe Poison
ing Of Gilmer.
RICHMOND, VA, July S1.-An Abingdon
Val special to the Dispatch says: THE
Baker-C CIilmer murder trial increases in in
teress as it progresses. To-day was en-
tirely consumed by the examination and
cross-examination of Mrs. Gilmer, the
chief witness for the commonwealth
and her evidence corroborated each
and every statement made in her
confession. She is very shrewd woman,
and it was the universal sentiment In the
court room that she made an excellent wit
ness. ard it was impossible to get her to
make contradictory statements. The court
convened this morning at $50 O'Clock and
the room was quickly crowded. DR.. Baker
still retains his unconcarned appearance,
but listens attentively to every word Of the
evidence.
MRS. GILMER RECALLED.
Mrs. Gilmer again came into the court
room heavily yelled and In tears Upon
the renewal of the examination, Mrs. GIL
mer said DIR. Baker came to see me the
day after the funeral Of his wife. About
four days afterward we were again crimi-
nay intimate. He had his sale Dec.
10, and moved to Abingdon afterward
About May l, after letters were found, Mr..
Summers came to my house TO arrest me-
and said he had three warrants against me
and DR.. Baker. My brother was there and
advised mo TO tell the truth. | was taken
before ESQUIRE Cunningham. Deputy
Sheriff Counts was there
THE POISON.
THE witness here detailed fully as to the
vias containing medicine and pofsons.
which were exhibited, and as to their CON
tents. 'Dr. Baker told me- she said. that
one OF the walls contained deadly poison,
and that the other was a nerve de-
prosser DR.. Baker told me he
put the deadly poison in one of
the vials prescribed for Mr.. Gilmer
by bis brother, DR.. Gilmer. / saw him put
1t IN. DE said a teaspoonful would accom-
phsh our purpose. l was arrested in the
parlor, and | now say, an hour afterward,
on leaving the room, went and got two of
the walls and gave them to Col. Summers.
Lou GIImer and persons nursing Mr.. Gill
mer administered the most of the medicine.
DR.. Baker gave some of it to him.
THE WITNESS IN TEARS.
During portions of these details the wit
ness wept bitterly and to some extent audi
bly,. DR.. Baker said prussic would kill in
one drop dose, but there was plenty, and
20 give plenty Of it. DIR. Baker never gave
Mr. Gilmer any medicine except when he
was sick. He gave him two capsules,
which he said were TO quiet him and to put
him to sleep, but he complained very
much from the first one, was
sick and had pain in the stomach The next
morning he was vomiting when DIR. Baker
came, and was being purged. He began to
get better after vomiting The first one ex-
cited him, the second, later in the nigat,
was followed by the other symptoms'
The witness was surrendered for cross
ex9mination.n
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SaRIMP AND CRABS.

Representative Clifton Gives His
Friends Luncheon.
ATLANTA, GA, July 31.-To-day, imme-
diately after the session of the legislature
closed, Hon. w. II. Clifton of Savannah
gave luncheon at the Dixie Club rooms.
This morning he received six baskets OF
shrimp and crabs fresh from the waters at
Savannah, aud presented one 10
Gov. w. J. Northen and one
to Capt. Evan Howell. The other four fur
nished the luncheon at the Dixie. Among
those present were Speaker Howell, Messrs.
Fleming. Turner, Lewis of Hancock,
Wooten, Morton, Craig, Hogan, Witzell,
Lumsden, Baldwin. Sears, Hartridge, Bax-
ter, Everett, Whitfield, Tatum, b. c.
Wells Of Savannah, Ryals, Seay,
BOifeuillet. Mann and Lark.
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emigrants on arrival to evade investigation
by English officials. The facts connected
with the harrassing Of immigrants in Ire~
land are becoming widely known m the
continent and assist In checking the flow.
THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.
Among the delegates appointed by the
Wesleyan conference TO attend the Washing
ton Ecumenical council. are Revs T. B.
Harrowell I. G. Selby, F. Ballard George
Parker, Josiah Nee, Dr.. Finnemore, Josiah
Hudson and Seth Dixon. The list includes
thirty ministers and twenty-five laymen
The conference to-day alluding to the Dixie
case, adopted a resolution protesting against
the introduction into public life of men
oonYLcted Of fiagrant immoraLtY.
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JUMPED THE TRACK.

Two Cars Overturned and Fourteen
Ous of Seventy Passengers Injured.
PITTsBURG, Pa, July 3l.-rhis morning
passenger train on the Bellsire. Evansville
track three miles south of Bellaire. Two
cars were overturned aud dragged some dis
tance. Seventy passengers were in the
overturned cars Fourteen were injured,
four seriously and one fatally but nobody
killed outright. The train was running
thirty-fiye miles an hour
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-01
GERMANY's BANK FoRGERIEs.

The Crookedness Disclosed by a
Broker
BERLIN, July 9l.-The discovery of the
Deutsche Bank forgeries was due 70 Herr
Schwieger, a broker, who, foreseeing tina
detection was inevitable, disclosed the state
of affairs The bank authorities are un-
certain of the full extent of the liabilities.
They suspect other engagements besides
those already discovered. 1t is stated that
the bank has already paid liabilities
amounting to S3,O00,000 in cash. The di-
rectors and administrative council, it is re-
ported, have decided to forego their royal
ties and current years profits.
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AN INSURANCE SCHEME.
Au Attempt to Collect $4,000 on
Live Fugitive Failed.


PORTLAND, ORE, July 3l.-B. D. Whei-
don, alias E. &. Strong, is under arrest here
as a fugitive from justice from Alabama.
About year ago, while living at Birmlng
ham. Wheldon or Strong had his life in-
sured for $4,000 few days afterward
his hat clothes and shoes were found on
the river bank where he hal left them to
create an impression thet he was drowned.
THE INSURANCE APPLIED FOR.
His wife then applied for the insurance,
but the company refused to pay it, claim
ing that w heldon was not dead. Suit was
brought to recover the money and the case
Is still pending in the Alabama courts.
Before leaving Birmingham Wheldon it
is said, forged the name of his father-in-
law George B. McMann, TO two notes for
$500 each. Detectives have been on his
track ever since, and he was located on
Saturday. Detective Seark of Birmingham
is here with requisition papers and will
take his man back.
REQUISITION PAPERS GRANTED.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, July Sly Yesterday
Gov. Jones granted requisition papers for
ID. b. Whilden, who has been arrested in
Portland, Ore, at the instance of the New
York Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Whilden had $4,000 insurance on
his life and disappeared in March,
1890. He was supposed to have been
drowned in the Tennessee river. The iu-
| surance companies resisted the claim. aud
the Mutual Life Company, of New York
have had detective named Ernest Starke
at work ever since. The first heard of
Whilden was on July II, when citizen of
Birmingham notified Smithson q Barnett,
attorneys, that he had recently seen Will
den in Tacoma.
THE ARREST.
The detective was Immediately ordered
| there, and on July "a announced his arrest
in Portland. The warrant OF arrest charges
Whilden with obtaining money on false
pretenses in case entirely foreign 20 this
one, which is made use of as a
means to get him back. Five
insurance companies are interested
and suits against four of them for $4,000
of S40.0 600 brought by Whilden's wife are
now pending in the Birmingham courts.
| Whiden will be brought back to Birming-
ham unless released before the requisition
papers can arrive.
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CAMP FowLB q LAST DAY.
The Camp Visited by the Ladies'
NJ moral Association.

The Camp Visited by the Ladies'
NJ moral Association.
WILMINGTON, y. c., July 3l.-This was a
gala day at Camp Fowle' During the fore
noon the camp was visited by the Ladies'
Memorial Association of this city, who pre-
pared dinner for the pensioners, and in the
afternoon Senator Ransom, escorted by the
New Hanover Veterans Association and
Second Regiment Band, went down
to the camp. Senator Ransom
was created with hearty cheers.
He spoke from the pavilion to the crowd of
about 2. 900 veterans and citiz ms and was
vociferously applauded throughout his adj
dress There were many ladies present.
The eucampunent closes tomorrow. 1t has
been a great success and the veterans are
we'll pleased with the attention received
from the neople Of WilminRtop.
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BsRING SEAS sEALERs.

4ue Forth American Commercial
company Scoops in 1900 Skins.
GAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July 31.-The
1.0a'ner st. Paul arrived from Ounalaska
l'' n'ght and reports intense excitement
soo1, aTi Vhe sealing edict. But two seizures OF
90 scnooners had been made UP to July
forre n, tne British schooner Z. D. Marvin.
A5,nsrly the American schooner Mollie
Nira9lls' and the American schooner La
son s"1ila, Before the news of the close sea-
ciai id reacned Sned the North American CONNER
skins company they had taken $500 seal
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FRANCOIS FLEET.

The French Ambassador at London to
Have q Vessel of His Own.
LONDON, July 31.-The French govern
ment will send a special steamer to convey
M. Waddington, the French ambassador
here, to Spithead. to view the French fleet.
The mayor of Portsmouth has received q
cordial letter from NJ Barley, the French
minister of marine, officially informing him
that the French squadron will arrive Aug
~. Admiral Gervais will dine with the
queen at Osborne house Aug. 20.
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A Factory to be Shut Down.

HAvERHILL, MASS. July 3l.-James H.
Wlnchell, an extensive shoe manufacturer
has announced that he will shut down his
factory where GOO hands are employed. The
lasters have given notice that they would
demand more pay on and after Sept. l.
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MEIGs' COLOR BLINDNESS.

U9 Naval Retiring Board Recon-
mends sis retirement.
+;.;, hlNGToN, July 3L.-The naval re.
'rra ,..us board has reported to Secretar Y
VIII 'na' Lieut.. ]. F. Meigs. being afflicted
tbo '- - 'or-olindness, should be placed on
final 9.ted aott list Of the navy. The case awaits
case in T'Si4a ,nSl by the President This is the
promat;or "nlch the officer was examined for
sight o3 en5 and and found TO be deficient in color
the retirI-l,I lS,Isosequently was ordered before
lug board for examination.
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Movements of the Rrrazuriz.

LISBON, July 31.-The Balmacedan cruiser
Presidente Errazuriz left this port at
o'clock this morning. She steamed out Of
the river and anchored short distance off
shore. The movements of the vessel are
being watched with the closest attention by
the authorities and others.
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Creditors ON His Heels.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 31.--On Thursday j.
W. Martin of the New York and Atlanta
Cigar Company sold his stock of goods.
Martin has creditors. They have filed a
petition asking for receiver and that Mar
tin be restrained from spending any OF the
money received from his stock. Judge
Clark has appointed Fulton Colviile receiver
and set Aug 8 for further hearing.
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A CASHIER DISAPPEARS.
He is Supposed to Have Carried of
$4,000.

$4,000.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 31.-Sylvester
Young, cashier at this point for the south
western division of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway. is missing and is alleged TO
be defaulter. Young was to-day engaged
in assisting in preparing the pay car for its
monthly trip over the read.
Shortly after o'clock this after
noon he disappeared. At 5
o'clock the railway officers notified the pO-
lice headquarters that Young had alb
seconded with sum estimated at $4,000.
The police up TO late honr have been un-
able TO trace him Young has been regarded
as a man Of exemplary habits and has beeu
prominent in Sunday school and church
affairs
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Ex-Attorney General Ely Insane.

ALBANY, GA. July 3l.-Maj. r. A. Ely,
formerly attorney general Of the state and
a noted planter of Southwest Georgia, was
adjudged insane in this city to-day. The
major has for months nung around the
hotels and public resorts Of the city pre-
senting a sad illustration compared with
his former self.
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A Fugitive Cashier Caught.

MARSHALL, MICH, July 31.--About six
weeks ago Cashier Kirby Of the City
National Bank fed, taking with him $780,
900 of the banks funds. Nothing had been
heard from him until yesterday, when it
was announced that he had been arrested
at Sedalis, Mo.
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Run Down by a Train.

PITTsBURG, PA, July 31.-Three section
hands on the Pittsburg Virginia and
Charleston railroad were run down by a
freight train near Turtle Greek, Pa, this
morning. Marcus Mannion, an Italian,
was killed instantly. and two others were
fatally injured. They were Hungarians,
and their names are not known.
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Don't Want Women to Vote.

SYDNEY, N. s. W., July 3l.-The motion
of Sir Henry Parkes in favor of grant
ing the right of suffrage to women
in New South Wales has bean rejected by
a vote of 81 to "a by the legislative assem-
bly
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Cash in the Treasury.

WASHINGTON, July.31. 1t is estimated at
the treasury department that there has been
All increase of a, 900 in the treasury
cash available for the payment of the pub
lie debt since July l. Under the old form
of debt statement this wonld be stated as a
reduction of the debt.
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KING AGAIN IN JAIL.

Ine Unnatural Husband Wounded but
Not Killed by the Mob.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 31.-Jim King,
an unnatural husband of Webster county,
was not hung, riddled with bullets and
ouried ln the woods as reported, but is in
jan In Greensboro for safe keeping. lie
escaped from the mob who
,ba Ie1e driving rapidly through
buo woods with him in surrey
ny ~ Jumping from between the two men he
Aa Ilulng with and taking to the timber.
az AS ne ran he was shot through the arm and
s'S - uaI was shot off. He was recaptured by
~ suerlts posse Tuesday evening while in
'uo woods near Boxville, Union county.
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A Brakeman Cut in Two.

LEXINGTON, VA, July 31.-G. E. DOLL
man. white brakeman on the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, fell between the moving
cars OF his train at Balcony Falls to-day.
and his body was cut In twain.
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Roastad Alive.

SEATTLE, WASH, July 31.-A butcher
named George Williams was burned to
death and negro cook and his wife were
fatally burned in fire which Consumed
s5O,OJO worth of property here last night.
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LONDON, July 31.-Secretary Balfour an
nounced in the House Of Commons this
evening that the training college bill would
be postponed until the next session.
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LONDON July 3l.-The British steamer
Godmundiug, in collision, sank the Nor
wegian schooner LORNA, of Dover last
night. Eight of the schooner's crew were
drowned.
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Death at Blufton

Tobn TSsdQN, TIN, Ala, July 31.-Rev. Prof
gpiscoraI 1IIailnnlck, llck, pastor Of the Methodist
he SoItb Spt5 caurch, dean of the University of
,onfers-n,' ,of,n 'LQ y: member of the Alabama
ence, died this morning.
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OTHER WILD RuMORs.

WASHINGTON, July 3l.-Not only Secre-
taFy Noble, but Attorney General Miller,
Pension Commissioner Raum and Con
troller Lacey have resigned, according to
various veracious gentlemen who viii not
let their names be used. To be su Q, Messrs.
Miller Raum and Lacey deny the state,
ment, but that makes no difference, for this
the time of the year for designations.
secretary Noble is supposed to be in the
Adirondacks beyond the reach of news
paper men, but if he could be reached for a
denial, his denials would not satisfy the
gosslps. He has already denied, at least
twenty times in six months, a similar
runor; but the rumOr still lives. If he has
now, at last resigned, he has deceived his
o'oSest friends here as well as the public.
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NICKEL STEEL ARMoR.
Ten Three-Inoh Protective Deck Plates

Ten Three-Inoh Protective Deck Plates
Ordered for the Navy.
WASHINGTON, July 3l.-In view of the
exhaustive trials made by the navy depart
ment, with the result of demonstrating the
superiority and greater tensile strength of
nickel steel as resistant armor for naval
vessels, the Secretary of the Navy has con-
tracted with Carnegie, Phipps & Co. for
ten three-inch protective deck plates, upper
layers. The relative cost of these plates, as
compared with pure steel, will be studied
and if satisfactory terms can be made this
kind of armor will be adopted in the con-
struction of the armored cruiser New York
and cruiser No. 12
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NAPLES, July 31.-Vesuvins has again
burst into eruption. Lava has now reached
the village of Rio del Cavalo.
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Cotton Ahlaze.

LIVERPOOL, July S1.-Many thousand
bales of cotton were destroyed by fire In
GrandY street, this city, to-day. The loss
is $3.50, 900.
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NOBLE HASN'T RESIGNED.

Secretary Halford Pronounces the
RumOr Unfounded.
CAPE MAY, N. j., July 31.-The reported
resignation from the cabinet of Secretary
Noble was absolutely and emphatically de
MED this morning by Private Secretary
Halford on behalf of the President. Secre-
tary Hal ord said: "There is not word OF
truth in it. Secretary Noble has not re-
signed from the cabinet, and, as far as the
President knows, has no intention of doing
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CRUISER NO. 13,

Secretary Tracy has finally decided to
award the contract for building the No. Is
cruiser to Cramp & Sons Of Philadelphia,
although the Bath iron works of Maine
were the lowest bidders The reasons gov
erning the secretary In making this award
are principally that the Bath iron works
could not complete the vessels within the
stipulated time and could not build the en-
zines at all
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POsroFFIOR RoaREas RAaGED.
Some of Their Plunder Found in Thei
POsS eSsiOr.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 31.-Chief Of
Detectives Wood has found key by which
he expects to be able to clear up the mystery
which has surrounded series of daring
postoffice robberies recently committed in
Virginia. John Cusicz, a horseshoer
living at No. 9O31 Buttouwood street, this
city, and Tim Burns. who says he is a
brakeman on the Reading railroad, who
made his home at No. l69 Spencer street
Falls of the Schuylkill, have been locked up
to await the action of the Virginia authori-
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FLOODED BY A wATERsPoUr.
The Lower Part of West Point, Miss.
submerged.

tJUDlLIJI 3 UN4s
WEST POINT. MISS, July 3l.-A water
spout yesterday flooded the lower part of
the city and the lowland in
this vicinity to a depth of
five or six feet. The railroad tracks in the
bottom lands were submerged with several
inches of water and crops have suffered to
great extent, many fields of cotton having
haan hnldad
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STOLEN ARTICLES FOUND.

In possession of the prisoners was found a
complete set Of tools for opening safes, hun.
dreds of dollars worth of postage stamps of
all denominations and a box of old
coius Tue arrests were brought
about by telegram received
by Chief Wood yesterday from
John Poe, Jr., chief of police of Richmond,
Va, asking him to examine box which
had been shipped from Richmond to John
Cusick of this city, and which was supposed
tn contain stolen goods.