Hamburg, May 3.
The quaint charge of "Robbery of human beings" against the captain. and two owners of the str. Falke, for forcing the crew under false pretences to participate in an unsuccessful revolutionary cou? againat the Venezuelan government collapsed to-day with the acquittal of the accused on technical grounds.
The court, however, added a rider to the judgment stating that the acquittal of the accused did not constitute a certificate of character the accused were guilty of ina treasonable the Gover: ment of a friendly state—Trans-
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