Ex parte Riebeling

MAXEY, District Judge.

This is an application made by Max Riebeling, who claims compensation as an informer, for having given original information to the collector of customs of this port to the effect that 120 cans of opium which he pointed out to an inspector had been smuggled into the United States from the republic of Mexico. The information given by the applicant led to the seizure of the opium and the same was duly sold under a decree of the court, and the proceeds thereof deposited by the clerk of the court with the collector of customs, as the law requires.

The application presented by…