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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23
HILlSDALE.

Mrs. Mccarthy and son of Davenport
visited last week at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Tanner
Thirty-five tickets were sold at the
H:llsdale depot Thursday morning for
the show in Rock Island.
Walter Scott and Mrs. E. L. Harri-
son spent Thursday in Albany They
were helping Mrs Mccartney get out
the Albany Review, Mr.. Mccartney be-
ing in Oklahoma visiting with his sons,
J Eric and, James.
Carl Stafford is working for Frank
Joslin.
Mike O'Donnell has very sore
hand. He caught it in the hay pulley
last week.
| Mesdames Frances Cary and Mary
Chase visited a few days the last of
the week with relatives in Moline and
Rock Island.
| Mrs. Mary Orr of Ohio is back on a
visit with relatives.
| The farm formerly owned by Otto
Seems, now in the possession of Thorn
as Crosswell, again changes ownership
this next spring, when William Schreck
will take possession.
Tom Enright attended the wedding
of his sister, Mary Enright, to Charles
Strupp in Rock Island Thursday.
Mrs. Enright and family Of Rock Is
land drove Sunday to the home of hel
son Tom and spent the day.
Ed Sands is, painting the Sarah Mer
ryman tenant house, now occupied by
Harry Entrikin
/ Friday afternoon Mrs. Oliver Elk
strom entertained the Yuma Aid so
ciety.
, Frank Dillon, ST., and Mr.. Heck O
Moline spent Saturday in Hillsdale a
the home of William Dillon
Edward McMurphy, town clerk, ha:
notices posted for bids on the new
, iron bridge which is to be built neal
/, Herman Liphardt's farm.
A surprise party was held Friday ev
iening on Miss Allie Delphy at thu
home of her parents.
, Mesdames A. B. Huston and Georg,
, Passmore spent Monday in the tri
, cities.
, Miss Sadie Wise returned to he
home in Barstow Monday after severa
weeks visit in Hillsdale with relatives
, The reds in the contest at the Sun
, day school were ahead Sunday afte
several Sundays being led by tn
Il blues.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stanbro visite,
relatives near Geneseo Sunday.
= Mrs. Henry Howard was called t
, Somonauk ILL.,, to the home of Rollil
, Dillon, where her son Harry had ha
the misfortune in playing to break hi
, leg.
Anil Breaker is home for a shor
!. vacation.
4 Born, Monday, July 20. baby CIR
:, to Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fender
Robert Fritz of Ladysmith, Wis,
!. here for a short visit with his sister
Mrs. G. L. Markee.
Hazel Orr is home this week suffe
ing an attack of malaria.
II Little Miss Langford of Albany an
Il her cousin, Lloyd Hanna of JOSH
y spent Thursday with their cousin, Mr.
x Clara Hanson
vi Miss Merle Wilbur of Erie visite
* over Sunday at the home of her aun
Y Mrs. Maud Mill.
Nl Miss Ada Hamburg has secured
z school in Tacoma, Wash. She leave
IS in a few weeks for the home of a 81
X ter who resides there.
" Miss Mabel Hill is visiting for fe
R days this week with friends in Ba
W stow.
ISL Mrs. Flora Norton of Moline visit,
" over Sunday at the home of her siste
~ Mrs. Julia Cockin.
Ml Miss Viola Herriot of Viola, ILL.,, VI
~ tied last week with her aunt, Mrs. R
II chel Kempster
WI The Misses Nellie Liphardt and Ma
g tina Baker are taking their vacation
. the west. They are now at Pike
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23

peak. where they expect to stay for
two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Edwall of Mo-
line visited Sunday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Frels.
Mrs. Jane Walker and her mother,
Mrs. Dunbar, are visiting relatives in
Keswick, Iowa. Mrs. Dunbar will
spend the remainder of the summer
with her children in the west.
Mrs. Nan Teaster of York, Neb., is
here for a visit with relatives. She
spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George Walker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.


Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock, Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, July 23.-Following are
the wholesale prices in the local mar.
ket today:
,N Provisions and Produce.
Eggs-Fresh, tic.
Live Poultry-Hens, per pound, &c;
springs, SO to 81 dozen.
Butter-Dairy, zoe.
Lard-10c.
Vegetables = Potatoes. soc; onions,
$100.
Live Stock.
Hogs-$6.35@6.75.
Sheep-Yearlings or over, 800 to
$500; lambs, $3.50 to $6.75.
Cattle-Steers $500 to $500 COWS,
and heifers. $500 to $500; calves, $500
$780,
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn, CSC to CSC: oats, 4sc
to SOC.
Forage-Timothy hay, $40 to $11:
prairie. 81 to $40: clover, SO to $11;
straw, Sc.
Coal-Lump. per bushel, 14c; slack,
per bushel, &c to Sc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23
COLORS OF PRIMARY BALLOTS

Announcements is hereby made that the Coors
Of the Primary Ballots to be used at Primary
Election to be held in Rock Island County, ILL.,. on
the eighth day of August, A. D. 1908. by the respeC
tive parties will be as follows:
Republican Party, White
Democratic Party, Yellow.
Prohibition Party, Blue
Socialist Party, Pink
Dated the 2lst day of July, A. D., 1908.
HENRY B. HUBBARD,
County Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23
COAL VALLEY

The farmers have ideal weather for
haying and harvesting. Wheat is cut
and some threshing has been done
E. ]. Normoyle of Rural had 80 BUSH
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23

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ted that he was guilty of fighting Mr..
Hartman said that he wasn't guilty, so
the case was continued.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23
NEWS OF THE NEIGHBOKS.

a niece, also goes to Muscatine to at
tend the funeral service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-07-23
THE MARKETS.


market quotations today:
Wheat.
July, 80, 81, 80, 909s.
September, 9Oas, 91as, 9O1s, 9Oh.
December, 917s,, SO, 91A, 921h.
May, 96B, 97B, 95B, 96A
Corn.
July, 75A, 1865, 1855, 1865.
September, 751a, TOYS, 7514, &c u.
December, 61as, 62A, 61H. 62l4.
May, 6OA, 61A, Co.'s, 61B.
Oats.
July, 551a, 56h, SIS, 56a.
September, 445s, 45as, 44as, 45A.
December, 437s, As, 43A. 45B.
May. 45A, 46k, 45A, 46as.
Pork
July, closed 1856.
September, 1880, 1882, 1857, 1857.
October, 1882, 1885, 1875, 1915.
January, closed 1856.
Lard.
July, closed 9.25.
September, 9.35, 9.37, 9.32. 932.
October, 9.42, 9.47, $40, $40.
January, closed $50.
Ribs.
July, closed S.67.
September, S.S7, S.S7, S.S2, $50.
October, S92, sos, $50, $50.
Receipts today-Wheat, 142; corn
1874; oats, LOG; hogs, 10000; cattle
5000; sheep, $4,000.
Estimated receipts Friday-Wheat
70; corn, 141; oats, 9S; hogs, $4,000
Hog market opened strong 5,
higher. Hogs left over, 1900. Light
$6.10@6.75; mixed and butchers. $6.2
@6S5; good heavy, $6.20@6.S7; rougl
heavy, $620@6.45. - - .5,.1.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened weak.
Omaha-Hogs, 5000; cattle, 1900
Kansas City-Hogs, 5000; cattle
6 900.
Hog market closed weaker to
SHADE lower. Light, S615@6.77
mixed and butchers, $625@6.S5; goo
heavy, s6.25@6.S7; rough heavy, $50
@54
Cattle market closed strong. Beeves
$i.25@S.60; stockers and feeder:
$2.75@4S5; cows and heifers, $40
@600.
Sheep market closed weak.
Northwestern receipts:
Minneapolis-Today, 1863; last weel
los; last year, 49,
Duluth-Today, 81; last week, los
last year, 81.
Liverpool opening cables = Whes
unchanged, corn unchanged.
Liverpool closing cables-Wheat
lower to Is higher, corn rs higher
New York Stocks.
| New York, July 23.-Following al
the quotations on the stock market t
day:
Gas 96A, U. P. 1545s, U. S. Ste
preferred 1851, u. S. Steel commo
45k, Reading 119, Rock Island prefe
red 1914. Rock Island common 17s
Southern Pacific SO, N. Y. Centr
1925, Missouri Pacific 56M, Gre
Northern 1861, Northern Pacific 141s
l.. & N. 110k, Shelters S61s, G. F.
SO, Canadian Pacific 1879, Illinois Ce
trail 1407s, Penna 1854, Erie 221s,
& o. 1875, B. R. T. 517s. B. & o. 931
Atchison S7ss. Locomotive 53as, Sug;
1929, st. Paul 141s, Copper 70, r
public Steel preferred "A, Republ
Steel common 21h, Southern Ry. 10.
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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
FATAL DUEL
ONE MAN KILLED ANOTHER IN
jured.
In Running Fight in Autos Al
Abductor is Killed by His Brother
in-Law.
in-Ilaw.

In running fight between the oc.
cupants OF two automobiles. in which
two revolvers were emptied. William
Patterson was shot and killed Friday
afternoon by his brother-in-law near
Millersburg, Ind, and Ernest Franks
the brother-in-law, was dangerously
wounded by Patterson in the thigh.
Patterson had as a prisoner in his
motor car Mrs. A. Sargent, young
woman, whom, it is alleged, he had
abducted in an excitive and daring
manner under the supposition that
she was a counterfeiter and was flee
ing from Franks. Mrs. Patterson
lately had separated from her hus-
band. it is said, on account Of his
rough treatment. He blamed Mrs.
Sargent for much of his domestic
troubles and it is supposed that he
had borne grudge against her.
Several weeks ago. fearing for her
life. Mrs. Patterson left her home and
took refuge with her father, Mr..
Franks. Mr.. Sargent, at his wife s
request, accompanied her to Lignori-
er and was her guest for some days.
but had intended returning to her
home at Wawasse.
Patterson, filled with liquor and
in an ugly humor, arrived at Ligoni-
er Friday afternoon little before
Mrs. Sargent started TO the depot
with Mrs. Patterson's father.
Il want that woman to get out of
that buggy" shouted Patterson.
He pointed a revolver at the doc
tor and at the same time dragged
the woman from the buggy. Mrs.
Sargent cried loudly for help, but
was dragged into the automobile
and placed in her seat. News
of the abduction spread throughout
Ligonier like lightning. Ernest
Franks, brother of Mrs. Patterson.
organized a posse of armed farmers
and started in pursuit, taking the
lead in a big touring car. The fugi-
tives were oyertaken just east of Mil
lersburg, near the Wabash depot.
Halt. or I'll shoot" shouted
Franks. standing up in his motor
car.
Patterson replied with string OF
curses and Immediately opened fire
with his revolver, shooting his broth
er-in-law in the thigh. Though dan
gerously wounded, Franks returned
the fire with such unerring ainr that
Patterson was instantly killed.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
Lost an Eye by the Bursting of Pepsi
Cola Bottle.

A Mr.. Pope. who keeps a restaur-
ant at Statesville. n. c.. was the
victim of a painful and serious ac-
cident on Monday. He was In the
act OF transferring a pepsi-cola bot
tie from a crate to an ice box when
the bottle burst with such force that
pieces of the glass literally split open
the ball of his left eye Mr.. Pope ap-
piled simple remedies to the eye and
then boarded a train and went to
Salisbury, where he had the injury
dressed by DR.. Brawley. He return
ed to Statesvile on the next train
and went to Charlotte that night to
have the eye treated by DR.. Wake
field. The physicians have advised
him that the sight of the eye is lost
for good and that it might have to
he taken out at once to save the un-
injured eye. An overcharge of gas
caused the bottle to burst.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
BRYAN REPLIES
TO THE CAMPAIGN LIE PUT OUT
By THE WORLD
That He Had Received Money From
Ryan as an Inducement for Him
to Support Parker.

In statement given out at Lin
coin, Neb., to the Associated Press
on Thursday night Mr.. w. ]. Bryan
replied to- an article appearing a
week ago in New York newspaper,
charging that Mr.. Bryan was the
beneficiary of a campaign contribu-
ton made by Thomas F. Ryan. Mr..
! Bryan says:
| Il have just read the story charg-
/ ing that my hrother-in-law, Mr.. AL
len, chairman of the Democratic
State committee. had conference
with Mr.. Sheehan in 1904 in regard
to campaign funds; that Mr.. Shee-
han, as Mr.. Ryan's attorney. secured
from Mr.. Ryan $4,000 for the Nebra-
ska campaign; that Mr.. Bryan made
the contribution to secure my open
and unqualified support of Judge
Parker; that to disguise the source
of the contribution Mr.. Ryan gave the
Check to Mr.. Sheehan, and that Mr.
Sheehan gave his checks to Mr.. AL
len.
Chairman Allen and Mr. Dahlgreh,
Nebraskan committeeman of the ma
tional Democratic committee, have
already denied the charges and stat
ed that the o"'y money received came
from the national committee. / de-
sire to add the following statement:
"Mr. Allen says that h. never saw
Mr.. Sheehan or Mr.. Ryan and |
have no reason to doubt his word.
If Mr.. Ryan contributed to the Ne
braska campaign it was not with
my knowledge or consent. While /
had but remote personal interest
in the Nebraska campaign that year,
am interested in Nebraska politics.
and am interested in national poll
tics, and am not willing to be, in
the slightest degree, obligated to any
favor seeking corporation. If the
newspaper in question will secure
from either Mr.. Sheehan or, Mr.. Ryan
a statement or prove in any other
way that Mr.. Ryan gave to Mr.. Shee-
han, to any one else, or to the ma
tional committee, any sum whatever
with the understanding that-the sum
would be used in the Nebraska cam
paign, shall see that the amount is
returned to Mr.. Ryan.
LAS to the charge that my support
of Judge Parker was purchased, j
need only say that | announced my
support of Judge Parker Immediately
after the st. Louis Convention, and
that support was open and unnuali-
fied from Ihe Conv i'iot urI'. IN"
polls closed. l had opposed his NOM
ination, but he had no more loyal
supporter during the campaign. /
was in correspondence with him;
and both on the stump and with my
pen rendered all the assistance
could. While the paper that prints
these charges was selling its columns
to the Republican committe to. be
used in caricaturing Judge Parker.
my paper was urging his election .
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
FAST TRAIN WRECKED.
Million Dollar Express Crashed Into
Switch Engine.

Speeding at so miles an hour
through the Post Morris yards the
million dollar" express, carrying
eight cars of valuable freight from
Boston to Washington. crashed into
a switch engine head-on, at 133rd
street and Willow avenue, New York,
early Thursday morning. Eight men
were injured seriously.
Both engines were demolished and
fire which started Immediately after
the crash, reduced both big iron
horses to scrap iron. In the for
ward car of the trai nwas $115,000
in currency, which was being carried
from the sub-treasury in Boston to
the treasury in Washington. The
car was deluged with water and the
fire kept in check.
Three trainmen. on switch engine
were hurled to the ground when col
lission came. All bruised and cut
by fyng metal. Names unknown.
Engineer Naughton, of the express
and Engineer Willett NJ. Bradley, oi
the switch engine, were detained by
the police OF the Alexander avenue
station pending an investigation
Naughton was so badly hurt that he
was sent back to the hospital. Brad
ley escaped without scratch. Ths
wreck was due to a misunderstanding
of signals.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
As a Result of a Collision on a
Trolley Line
AND MANY ARE HURT.
The Horror Occurred on the WASH
ingtOn, Baltimore and Annapolis
Electric Railway and Was Caused
10y Confusion of Orders.

At Annapolis, Md, in a head on
collision between two special cars
of the Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis Electric Railway company
shortly before 8 o'clock Friday night.
eight persons were killed outright and
score of others were seriously in
jured, some of them perhaps fatally
The collision was due to q confu-
sion of orders, as the line has been
running several extra cars each way
in connection with the commence
ment festivities at the Naval Acade-
my. The dead are:
Richard Norton, 25 years old.
Baltimore; Police Patrolman Schri-
ber, 40 years old. employed by the
railway company at Academy juno
ton; one unidentified white woman,
apparently about 25 years old, said
to be from Baltimore. and dressed in
ball costume; Zach O'Neal, 20 years
old. New York, motorman of one. of
the wrecked cars; Ruth Slaughter.
six years old. daughter of General
Traffic Manager William II. Slaugnt-
er OF the road; j. w. Mcdaniel.
Baltimore; George White. Balti-
more.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
FIVE YEGGMAN CONVICTED.
Men Arrested Near Lancaster Found
Guilty at Raleigh.

The five yeggmen arrested near
Chester, charged with the robbery of
the postoffice at Dunn, n. c., were.
in the Federal Court at Raleigh
found guilty and were each sentenced
to FIVE years in the penitentiary at
Atlanta and to pay a fine of $500
each. For the Government the case
was vigorously prosecuted by District
Attorney Harry Skinner, who urged
the Court to impose the full penalty
twelve years imprisonment on the
men. The evidence on which the
conviction was made was given by
postoffice inspectors, by John F. Nc
Carthy, policeman OF Boston, Mass,
and by James G.. Wilson. of Pelzer,
s. c., father OF one of the yeggmen. =
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
DARING CRIMES AT RENO.
Fight Men And Two Women Hold
Up the Town.

At Reno, New, gang OF eight men
and two women in series of hold
ups coupled with on attempt at arson,
Thursday robbed the Rawhide Hotel
of $500, lining up the occupants
against the wall, held up two men in
a tent, held up and beat a stage
driver. robbed a drug store, held up
three other men, securing small sums,
and set FIRE to the Rawhide Hotel to
prevent being followed. They es-
capped to the hills with $400. The
sheriff with a posse aided by State
police is in pursuit.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
FELL TO HER DEATH.
From the Roof of IA Burning New
York Tenement.

One woman was killed and six
others we're terribly burned Tuesday
in fire in the furnished room house,
No. 313 West Thirty-eight street,
which threatened the lievs of a score
of persons. The woman leaped from
the roof to death on the pavement
below. Lieutenant Mandray. of En-
gine company No. 1. with four fire.
men, went down in the collapse of a
burning stairway, but all escaped with
slight burn and bruises. Mrs. Bell
traine leaped from the rear of the
house. An uniaced shoe caught in
the supporters as she passed the
floor and this turned her so that she
struck head foremost on the cement
paving.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
$4,000 stolen.

The bank of Fairland. at Fairland
Okla, was entered by robbers We'd
nesday night and $4,000 including
the postoffice receipts was secured
Three men composed the gang. They
rode into town on horse back, tied
their horses near the bank building
and after getting the money. mount.
cd and rode away in safety. Officers
are in pursuit.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
PEARLING FLEET WRECKED
Many Lives Were Lost During the
Severe Typhoin.

dispatch from Victoria, b. C
says the steamer Manuka has arriv-
ed there bringing news of the deS-
truction of the pearling fleet in a
typhoon off West Australia, involv-
ing the loss of fifty luggers and 27O
lives. twenty being whites.
The disaster to the feet of pearl
ing luggers occurred near Thursday
Island, a typhoon striking the fleet,
scattering the vessels. completely
wrecking some and driving others
ashore.
Survivirs reported narrowing ex-
periences. some being picked up in
the last stage of exhaustion clinging
to the wrecked hulks while sharks
followed waiting for the exhausted
men to drop from the wreckage.
The bidies if some of the victims
were eaten by sharks.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
BANDITISM NEAR PITTSBURG
Mounted Masked Men Rob Store and
Shoot Up Town.

A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa.
says following the holding up and
robbing of a Pennsylvania railroad
express train and a street ca the
vicinity was treated to third wild
Western affair Thursday when two
masked men, heavily armed and
riding horseback, smashed the win
dow of the Monogahela Consolidat-
ed Coal and Coke Company's general
store at Eastman, appropriated
valuable articles and galloped away
firing revolvers.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD.
Town Destroyed and Eighteen Peo-
pie Drowned by IL.

A dispatch from Mexico City says
eighteen persons are known to be dead
and the town of Pachula has been
two days of floods. The waters rose
with unexpected speed and carried
away entire buildings in the rushing
torrents. Searching parties were
hunting for more bodies Tuesday. A
cloudburst filled the Barranca Secca
from side to side and the rushing
torrent completely engulfed the viii
lage without warming. The Secca
valley is usually dry and is a much
travelled highway into Pachula.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-06-11
THIEVES FoILED
NEW YORK ROBBERS
FROM STEALING $4,000.
In Daringly Conceived Hold-Up
Three Men Were Kept From Get
ting Banks Cash.

Fearlessly thrusting herself in
among vigorously welded black
jacks, Mrs. Eva Javornicka prevent
ed daring attempt upon the part of
three highwaymen to steal $4,000
from the messengers who were
carrying it in a thickly populated
New York street to bank. When
the robbers made their attack, the
woman, witness, ran from a res
taurant and put herself between the
messengers and their assailants,
screaming loudly for the police. BY
clinging to tho robbers, she not only
hampered them in their attempt to
beat down the deTf nseif the mcsseng@r
but soon attracted large crowd of
persons who went to the rescue
Frightened at tre hubbub being rails d.
ed. the robbers ceased their attack
and fed in different directions. Lat
er a man accused of having been
one of them was captured and evil
dence enough was soon found to hold
him
Daringiy Planned Crime.
The police department OF the me-
tropolis declare the robbery was the
nerviest on record, it being evident
that the robbers trusted to their
QuicknesS to beat the messengers in
to submission and get away with
their booty before their capture could
be effected
The attack was made in a thickly
populated tenement district, and
many saw the faces but, thinking it
to be one of the numerous drunken
brawls, common in that district, paid
no attention to it. But Mrs. Javor-
nicka, seeing the fash of steel,
thought different and threw herself
into the fray. The struggle while it
lasted was vicious. Blinded by pep
per thrown in their eyes, clubbed
over the heads with black jacks, and
their wrists and arms slashed by
knives, the messengers hung on to
their precious burden like grim
death, the woman meanwhile bother
ing the robbers so much that one
attempted to stab her.
When help arrived, two of the
messengers sank to the ground. over
come by the struggle, and were later
taken TO a hospital. Meanwhile one
of the robbers, his hand covered by
blood from his victims wounds, was
pursued through several streets by
u crowd of small boys. He was in
a fair way of making his escape when
he bumped into an officer, and his
explanations were so unsatisfactory
he was locked up. Later Mrs. Javor-
nicka positively identified him hs
one OF the three thugs.