The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-18 00:00:00

POLICE.- SATURDAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Foncentes 1:PO8 THE R,DSIAN
GOVERNMENT.—John and Daniel Forrester, the officers,
have been for some time occupied in watching the move-
ment, of several foreign Jews, who have been, according to
the information received by the officers, engaged in forging
notes upon the itiosian Bank to a very large amount. On
Friday they went to a house in which some of the parties
resided, and with a sledge hammer broke open the door of a
room in which the undoubted evidences of guilt were
It was necessary to proceed to sudden violence in order to
accomplish the week of detection. There were three mew in
the room, and they were brought to the Mansion-house,
when, as it was indispensable, on account of the fact that
others were concerned, that there should he no public state-
ment, a private examination was held. Subsequently, five
other persons were apprehended accomplices.
The three persons, who were examined on Friday, are
named Aaronson Leybe, Jacob Friedeberg, and Raphael
Koufman.—Daniel Forrester said that he went, in company
with his brother and another officer, to No. 8, Queen-street,
Soho. They went up to the third floor, and with a hammer
broke open the door, and there they found, upon entering
the room, the three prisoners. There was • small table in
the room; Leybe and Friedeberg stood near it, and Kouf-
man, who was also at the table, hod a pair of scissors in his
hand. On the table were the papers produced, representing
the government bank notes of Russia. On the left hand side
of Koufman there was a bed, and in the bed other papers
were found. In the coat which Koufman were, in the
lining, similar notes were found. There were in the cupboard
several other papers and a variety of lithographing stones.
There was a press in the room.—Mr. Matthias March, em.
p'oycd in the Itenian consulate,said that the notes produced
were forgeries upon the Russian Bank.
On Saturday, the following persons, suspected to have
been connected with the transaction, were brought up in
the custody of John and Daniel Forrester:—Solomon Mos-
Tankie Tobias, Teta Solomons, the wife of S. Mos-
coritz, and Moses Ilackle.—Daniel Forrester said he went
with his brother to No. 139, Minories, a house where he
had seen Friedeberg and Aaronson, on Wednesday last, the
13th instant. There he found the four prisoners in the
room on the second floor. The woman was coming out, and
he took her bsek. They were sesrched in the room, and
Solomon Muscovite being seen fumbling in his waistcoat
pocket, his hand was caught hold of, and there were found
in it the three notes produced. lie accounted for the
ion of the notes by saying that a man named Frlede-
bergss had given them to him for nine shillings, and that they
were worth three shillings each. Ile said nothing about any
more notes being in his possession. Upon searching him
two more notes were found in a pocket-book in his pocket,
and part of a note. Ile said Friedeberg had given him the
whole. Afterwards the landlord of the house where Frie•
dcberg lives gave in the card of Moses Hackle—Mr. M.
March, of the Russian Consulate, said he believed ascot the
cotes produced was a genuine note of the Russian govern-
ment. The other two were not, in his opinion, genuine.—
The prisoners were remanded till Friday.
G UILDHALL.—SetmIora TEA.—James Styles, marine-
store dealer, who was charged last week by the excise with
having in his possession a quantity of spurious tea, some
fabricated from leaves of various herbs and shrubs, and some
from tea which had been used, dyed, gummed, dried, and
manipulated, so as to resemble young hyson, attended to
receive the judgment of the court.—Mr. Alderman Mus-
grove inflicted the fine of 401. upon him, and in default he
would stand committed to gaol fur six months.—The defend.
ant said he could not pay the money.—Alderman Musgrove
replied the law was imperative.—The solicitor of the excise
begged to be allowed to restrict the quantity on which the
penalty should be takes to two pounds. He had made a
good deal of inquiry about the defendant, and he believed
that he had not carried on this illicit trade to any considera-
ble extent, that he was seriously determined now to abandon
it, and that he was not in good circumstances.—Mr. Alder-
man Musgrove said these were no doubt grounds for some
mitigation, and if the commissioners of excise would be
satisfied with • smaller penalty, be would venture to reduce
it to 101., but in default of paying that sum he must go to
gaol for the period of six months.—The prisoner said he
could net pay even 101., and was committed.
CLERK EN W ELL. —B UROLAMY.—Jamea Kiliduff was
charged with breaking into the dwelling-house of tae Rev.
Mr. Leggett, Duncan-street, Islington, and stealing a quan-
tity of plata, jewellery, a silver muff-box, besides other pro-
perty, belonging to that gentleman. Brtween one and two
o'clock in the morning one of the defendant's servants was
awakened by a noise in the drawing-room, whither she in-
stantly prooreded, and encountered the prisoner and another
man. She made a hasty retreat, elating and locking the
door, afterwards calling her master, with the other inmates
of the house, from their beds. Before any one was aroused,
the prisoner, of whose identity she was positive, escaped
with the other man from the building. On examination of
the premises, the prosecutor ascertained that the depredators
had obtained an entrance by means of a crow-bar applied to
the drawing-room window, and from that apartment and a
parlour adjoining, the property in question wan stolen. The
attention of Sergeants Brennan and Withers was directed to
the robbery, and, having discovered in tha prosecutor's
garden a pair of newly made bode, they sought after and