Samuel Freeman Miller

“ As to the statement introduced in evidence, as taken down in the office of the claimants' attorney, purporting to be made by Albren, though not signed or sworn to, it seems to us that his own account of it is probably correct, namely, that it was an attempt to commit him before the trial to a statement which would exonerate Captain Downey, and that the offered bribe failed, probably because neither party would trust the other by signing the paper or paying down the money first. ”

“ It is a clear prim a facie case, and both by the statutes and the ordinary rules of evidence required of the claimant such testimony as should satistactorily rebut the presumption of guilt which it raised. ”