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17 e, 5 and to inform, by the defendant T e r š i p, that the wheel had been claimed by the loser. Further the complaint filled V a n e š . whether vhr or after the payment of the finder's wage to the finders Zeman did not happen any more - in the absence of the accused T er š I p Bl. 5 and 6 of the Akten -, heading 1O, on the find notice that the wheel was given out to a Karl S 1 a m a as loser on 20 April 1941, and added in column ll./, which is intended for the signing of the loser about the retention of the lost things, to the signature " Karl Slama ", the An- sued T e r š i p invited the finder Zeman, told him that the bike in the meantime had been abjugated by the losers, and paid him the amount of 100,- K as finder's wage. Zeman accepted him and confirmed his receipt in section 14 of the find notice. The wheel was overtaken by a police mechanic on behalf of the prosecutor N e č a s e k, who had it painted with a new and different paint at a company in Budweis. Since there was a repair cost of 300,- K the defendant N e - č A s e K paid him. On February 19, 1943, when the investigation by the Prague police had already begun on alleged irregularities in the police direction, the defendant N e č a - s e k approached the defendant T e r š i p at an occasional meeting on the street with the request to take the bicycle back to the fund office, the latter replied that it was possible to do more, since the surveys in the fund department were already under way. The wheel stopped in the garage of the police department, where it was based on these findings based on the information provided by the three defendants and the contents of the orgi- nal find report in the files. The defendant N e č a s e k denies that he has committed criminal offences and explains the following: "He explained to the defendant V a n e š - to his knowledge already before Christmas 194l - that he wants to buy a bicycle for his son and asked him to help him with this, after a few days V a š told him that there was a bicycle to be bought in the fund office. He had looked at it together with him in the presence of the defendant T e r š i p, had found pleasure in him, had decided -at first instance