The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

The Aust:

England.

The authenticity of the following narrative is
guaranteed by the gentleman who communicates

" In the middle of November a young Jewish
lady, E. S., came to London on her way to New
York, and proceeded to Bucker's Hotel, Christopher-
street, Finsbury-square. Her father, a commercial
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man from Galicia, who had carried on business as
commission agent for 20 years in Vienna, and had
failed, had preceded her to New York in the month
of September. The lover of his daughter, formerly
an Austrian officer, was also in the American capital,
and the young woman's journey was taken in order
that their marriage might be celebrated. She wished
her younger sister to accompany her, but the latter
was unable to leave Vienna in consequence of the
difficulty of obtaining a passport. As the delay was
so long continued, E. S. telegraphed to her sister
that she should proceed without her if she did not
come soon. A telegram which came in reply said:—
lam coming to London. I shall start on Decem-
ber 11.' This telegram was false. It had not come
from the sister, but from the Austrian police.

" The subjoined details are necessary in explana-
tion of this trick. The lover of E. S. during his
stay at Vienna, by the wish of an officer of his
acquaintance, M., introduced him to the family of
his intended bride. M. sought the further acquaint-
ance of the family, and was a frequent guest. In
the last days of November, after E. S. had already

departed, and whilst her father was already in
America, M. reported to his superior officers that
there was a deficiency in his accounts, and stated
that he had lost the money at play. Immediately
afterwards the remaining members of the S. family
were arrested and kept in confinement for 14 days.
During this imprisonment the telegram from London
arrived, and the answer already mentioned was re-
turned by the police. E. S. knew nothing of all
this, but daily awaited the arrival of her sister at the
railway station. On the 16th of December two men
came to Bucker's Hotel and desired to, speak to the
young lady. They declared that they had been sent
by her lover in New York to conduct her thither.
This story was a little too lame for a cute child of
Israel, and many questions put by her to them made
the untruth too clear. These gentlemen then un-
masked themselves as Austrian police, took away
the passport by which E. S. wished to show that she
was properly accredited, and also the keys of her
boxes, which they routed over in vain, and then de-
clared that the lady must accompany them, to Aus-
tria. Naturally E. S. refused to go with the chief
police commissioner, as he called himself. The lat-
ter, however, had obtained an arrest warrant from
the Sheriff of Middlesex, after taking an affidavit
that the lady owed X., whose agent he was, the
sum of 10,000 gulden. By means of this unheard-
of proceeding the catchpoles of the Vienna police
succeeded in lodging the unfortunate young
lady, who is little more than nineteen years
of age, in the debtors' prison at Whitecross-
street, where she has already been incarcerated
for nearly three weeks. Possessing thousands
at a distance, she was compelled, through the
brutality exercised towards her, to give the rings
from her fingers to procure necessaries, as she at
the first expected to receive her passage money from
her father. We doubt not in the least that Miss
E. S., whose case has been confided to one of the
best attorneys of London by a zealous friend, will
soon be set at liberty. Supposing that the above
narrative is completely correct, (and its authenticity
is guaranteed), but one opinion can be passed On
the conduct of the Austrian police, namely, that
with highly improper means, on the most frivolous
reports, they have persecuted a lone young woman
with entirely unnecessary torments, even on the free
soil of England, and have challenged public opinion
by a highly obstinate proceeding. The Vienna
police must surely have lost their heads when, by
the abuse of English regulations, they sought by
their agents to find the money which an officer had
made away with, and, according to accurate reports,
had lost at play, in the boxes of a poor girl,
wherein, as the result showed, scarcely the shadow
of a trace was to be found. The Vienna police
have already departed, so as to promptly obtain
their laurels, because by delay these might become
changed into chaff."—Bender's Londoner Anzeiger.