132 REPLY OF UNITED STATES 



a. j. Bechtei,fact at the time of their seizure owned by one 



United States cit- J 



izen, owner. A. J. Bechtel, then a citizen of the United States, 1 

 and that William Munsie and Frederick Carne, 

 in whose names the claim for damages growing- 

 out of the seizure of these schooners are made, 

 had in fact no interest in the schooners or their 

 outfits and catches ; that the schooners Alfred 

 Adams, Black Diamond, and Lily, for the seizure 

 of which claims are made in the schedule, were 

 A. Frank.unitea in fact at the time they were seized owned by 



States citizen, 



owner. one A. Frank, who was then a citizen of the 



United States; that Grutman, in whose name the 

 schooner Alfred Adams was registered, was not 

 the actual owner of the schooner, her outfit or 

 catch, but, on the contrary, that the said schooner, 

 her outfit and catch, were owned by said Frank ; 

 that after the release of the Alfred Adams from 

 seizure her name was changed to Lily, in behalf 

 of which damages are also claimed in the 

 schedule, she remaining the property of A. Frank, 

 and he alone being interested in her outfit and 

 catch, and not Morris Moss, in whose name the 

 last-mentioned claim is presented ; and that said 

 Frank was also the owner of the schooner Black 

 Diamond, her outfit and catch, and that he was 

 the real person who sustained damage or loss by 



1 T. T. Williams, post p. 351. 





