A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2350, sig. 109-11/152

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18 9 - to buy an amount of 200... K .- and stab him to fix the matter, the accused V a n e š had noticed that he found this amount too high, and after a few days informed him that he had settled the matter and that a sum of lo0 crowns had to be paid for the wheel. He had paid them to him and assumed that the matter had been settled. He had in mind a legal execution of the case, knew nothing about the forgery of the find and only tried to intervene the police. He had not given an order to attach an other coloured protective post; the overhaul had been carried out independently by the mechanic according to his professional experience. He did not refer to the amount of vpn loO Kronen as an ordinary finder's wage, nor as an usual purchase price, but as a purchase price for the right of entitlement granted to the finder aut das Finder. The Pall was far too small and void for him to have imagined that, in order to carry out his duties, forgery of documents or other criminal acts, it would be necessary, or could be or would be applied; this risk was never worth the wheel being in a bad condition. He had believed that the defendant had acquired the wheel from the person who had been entitled to order from Kierüber, that he was right to ask the defendant T e rš i p to take the wheel back to the fund office. He had told him that he was convinced that the whole thing was in order, but he wanted to avoid that even the shadow of a suspicion of 1hn fall urid would be better to return the bike." The defendant V a n e š noted to the admission of the defendant N e č a s e k: "In the spring of 1942 the accused N e-č a S e k had asked him whether he knew a source of reference for a boy's bicycle, He had denied it and after a few days the defendant had explained to him that siah found such a wheel in the fund office, which he wanted, he - V a no š - should cause the proximity. He then called the defendant T e r š i p to his office with the request to bring the find notice. In the debate with him, the defendant N e č a s e k d a_z u