The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-13 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Aiwa /frisfserg, who stated himself to be a merchant,
was Weft before Alderman Wire, in the custody of
Oaten the detective officer, charged with having been
in the Joint Stock Bank, for the purpose of
plunder.
TM solleeriaid—On Saturday afternoon I was in the
' IMAM Iniaeliteek Bank, and I saw the prisoner, with his
NM es bils armand some papers in his hand shoving
between three or four gentlemen at the counter with notes
M their hands. He pushed between the gentlemen, and
balding his arm sp, caught bold of some notes and checks
which were in the hand of one gentleman, and tried to get
them. The gentleman appeared to think that it was the
mat which was ever the prisoner's arm that pulled them.
The prisoner then moved behind a few minutes, and then
sat down in the chair by the window. Soon after-
wards there was a crowd of wren or eight other
gentlemen at. the counter, and the prisoner got
up and pushed through those gentlemen, still hold-
ing the papers in his hand, and he put his right hand
between • gentleman's coat and waistcoat apparently to
the breast pocket. He had his coat upon his arm, and was
pushing by with it, and then he went and sat down again.
He' acted in the like manner two or three times afterwards,
end after watching him for a quarter of an hour, I called
the attention of the asessenger to hiss and took him into
custody. The pa re he had in his hand consisted of a
blank form of meffit of which copies are left on the counter
to be Sled up by persons paying in money, and another
blank form upon which there were figures. He pretended
to be able to speak no language except the German, and I
got a gentleman to speak in that language to him. I told
him I charged him with attempting to pick the pockets of
dlffineat persons, and he gave his address in the City.road,
, when% Inquiry I found he had lived since Thursday
WS kaleiroom. I found in his possession 21. 17s. Id.,
et Week • pocket-book, a knife, three finger rings, and a
illittteon, massager in the London Joint Stock Com-
pay, said I received somelinformation from the detective
officer, and saw the prisoner go behind several gentlemen,
' with his cost over his arm, is a very suspicious manner.
After; staying a short, time, he moved up. the office, and,
seeing me on the staircase watching him, he want. to the
counter, took up • pen, and pretended to write something
on a piece of paper.
The prisoner said, through an interpreter, that he had
lately arrived from the continent, and was anxious to see
the manner in which the banking business of the country
wee carried on, en which account he went into the banking
house, having no dishonest intention at all mixed with his
curiosity.
It appeared that the coat which the prisoner had over
his arm was a frock coat, and that he was wearing at the
time he wee in the banking house • great coat, under which
there was so cost at all ; the inhumes tem which was that
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