The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-31 00:00:00

THB POLICE COURTS

MANSION-HOUSE.

diegkefs &dame, a Memo, was brought before the
Lord Mayor charged with hunt feloniously threatened to
scrum Asher Stern of having eel ire to his dwelling=
with the view to eaten arty. The fallowing is a
account of the ON" which incited much intermit 116.
Daniel append fm the prosecutor.
Mr. Stern, A
ir
mantas:num, at 47, Wye.
square, mit—bat Ihriky week a tin broke out Is sty bens
in Alimelent, la my demo 2 bra Obit in tines at
sight eelder la the sewing. 1b down mg I Wand, pet
out. bat Mont Win hour shrunk it WS oat again
sad barn and dentroped about 4001, worth of goods. I was
insured in the West of logien Fire Offtre. I did all
1 could to seen to out the fire and to save
my property. I eapleyaf Mr. Hunter to make out
me,account claiming the ootapemation from the
and that claim his ben admitted ow the
pen of the dike. I have bola the prisoner three
inane. He was in my employment till the dayrot' the sire,
and shat lot Uri*. ampro -pant for him, sad I believe
he Ins en 1 week. About duos or four days after the tiro
he cent it nso sad said he wanted to speak to me. I said,
" Whet derm wan r He said, " I want to ask you for
121." I saW,lims whet our. He said, "If you don't give
me 121. , I'll p 0 mien at the aeon, and you'll get trans.
ppoorrtteedd Het be bed seen in the papers that I was
lasaadis the eat of England °Moe, sidbe said he would
ipe One grim thmt I had est the house on fire. I said to
Idea, "Tetuan sot then, nor was I, when the the first
teen eat, gad you were away, too, when it broke out
again." It. el{ " very hard up; I've got everything
pawned. I man have 121., or swear anything against
you." I mil he molds, with
be h me and state the case
to Mr. Hines mad knew about it ; and
ha wton these nib saw Vb. Hoffer, but he did not
mit man thenemeng of that nnalmess briny rayon, bat
he Zapiewelbaelf which /dm Polite suit On the
Own it alga vent away, mal 111141111111 an again
till y morning, when, an I ileff Inom be cease up,
having, apparently, boonwaiting ler inn 'EMMA be wantid
to speak to me. He said, "I bear peahen sing with the
fical went mosey." I said I had not got
any, and I had not received it from the Imensnce-oface, and
if I hed I could not give him any. Hs add, " Now is the lot
time see you; I'm going to the elks now, and if Igo
there and eweer black is white and white is black you
man be tremported ;" and if I would not give him
121. I must give him U., ea he understood I
should not get so ranch from the dr.-Mace ea he had
lest nerd ; an I then made ea appointment for hint to
meet me in the afternoon, and I said I would try end get the
.51. and give it to him. I went to the police-station. The
whams than naiad the particulars of the plan for the deten-
tion of the primmer, sad the conversation between them,
which was heard by others, and mentioned that he had given
to the veneer two marked sovereigns and his I O U for 31.,
which mosey and document were found upon the prisoner by
the polite at the station-ounce.
Meyer Heiberg, a wstaesprooter, mid—l wog at the home
of the Frowner when the fire broke out. Imw the poi.
sneer the day after the fire, and he told me to tell Stern that
if he did mot give Ma 121. he aboakl be transported. I told
him if he maid prove that Sten bad set fee to the holies
Minna, he man go to the inearennelies and tell them,.
as I could mot do anything nest it temelfwithlatern. The
trKold be had pledged foods to the amount of Woad
eleeZtsdia get U. more to num hint to Ilearburg, end he
would mot Lice a nrtglma. He sell he staid prove that
Stern had info* te tht. bean hiaaelf._ _

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