The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

CURIOUS CHARGE OF ROBBERY. —lsaac Finhlestone,
a Polish Jew, was brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged by Mrs. Rieg, a lodginghouse-keeper for foreigners,
with having stolen two sheets and a blanket " off his ready-
furnished bed."

Mrs. Rieg swore that Mr. Finklestone, who inhabited
one of her rooms, bad a band prepared to take away any
thing that it could get hold of, as a proof of which he had,
the last morning he was in her house, prigged a bit of soap
out of the basin of one of her other lodgers.

Mr. Finklestone, who expressed himself all through the
scene in a most furious but eccentric manner, immediately
fired at this imputation._ Vot you say ! me steal soap !
vot could Ido vid soap? Look, my Lor (holding out
and wringing a pair of hands which bore strong testimony
of his innocence), she say I steal soap. Oh vicked, vicked
female dog !—(Laughter.)
Mrs. Rieg declared that Mr. Finklestone was what she
might call a shabby thief, and intimated that nothing could
he " too hot or too heavy" for his gripe.
Mr. Finklestone—Ah, ha! you call me teef ; vot do I
vant to be teef for. 'Tie you be de teef, old Rig. Ibe
rich man, I've de inonish in de Bank, more den 51. You
be de teef, old thick leg.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR-Let me know the particulars of the
charge on which the prisoner is brought here.
Mrs. Rieg—Please your Lordship, he lodged with me,
and he went away, 14 weeks ago, Si. 10s. in my debt ;
and, moreover, he walked off with two sheets and a blanket.
Mr. Finklestone—Vot you mean by valk off? Mrs.
Rieg—Why you stole 'em, to be sure, as you stole the soap
out of Mr. Hackerbash's chamber.
Mr. Finklestone—Ah ! you old Rig, vot do I vent
two sheet and de blanket. I don't vent two sheet at all ;
I've sheet at home.—(A laugh.)
Mrs. Rieg—My Lord, he stole them, and my servant-
maid can prove it.
The servant gill said that immediately after Mr. Finkle-
stone had left his mistress's house she missed the sheets and
blanket off his bed.

Mr. Finklestone—Ah, my Lor, she will swear anything
for old Rig. Ven de vent to keep de lodger from going off,
de say she vent two sheet and de blanket. She is Rig's
daughter. Alt, ha, de say Ibe robber. D iires Maishter
Davis, and Maishter Aarons, and Maishter Solomons, will
give in my hands fifty hundred poundsh, and de say I vant
two sheet and de blanket ! I don't vant no sich ditty
ti ng. —( Laugh ter. )
The LORD MAYOR... 4 am not satisfied with this evidence,
Mrs. Rieg.
Kinnersley (the beadle of Aldgate, where Mrs. Rieg re-
&des) gave the Lord Mayor to understand that he believed
Mrs. Rieg was subject to mistakes on occasions of the kind.
The LORD MAYOR—Mr. Finklestone, you are dis..
charged.
Mrs. Rieg (in a violent rage) Oh ! that's the way jus-
tice is done here, is it? Well, if I don't indict you for
the robbery 1 hope I may catch it. Here's a way of treat-
ing an unprotected woman.—(Laughter.) Kinnersley,
depend upon it you shall hear of this. You shall catch
it afore it's long.
Mr. Finklestone—Ab, ha, Mistress Rig, you must go

some von else if you vont two sheet and de blanket.

The Polander, whose mode of pronouncing the words
descriptive of the offence with which he was charged was
rather peculiar, then left the Justice-room, declaring that
the Lord Mayor had delivered him out of the hands of a
she Philistine.
The LORD MAYOR received a letter in the German lan-
guage, from a native of Germany, now in Sunderland.
His Lordship immediately ordered that it should be trans.
lated, and then found that, after passing some high enco-
miums upon him, the writer requested the loan of 1001.
to set up business with in this country, which he preferred

to his own, in consequence of the greater facilities of get-
ting money. The letter was written with great simplicity,
and the Lard Mayor, believing that the writer was really
serious, desired Mr. Hobler to remove the erroneous im-
pression from the poor man's mind. The applicatiou be-
gan with " Your most puissant Excellency."