The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-21 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD A
POLISH ADYIINTURER.

At the Nottingham Police-court, on Tuesday,
Louis Zychlinski, the pseudo Baron of Zychlin,
was brought up on remand on a charge of having
obtained £4OO from the Rev. Henry Maltby, under
false pretences.
The prosecutor, Mr. Maltby, stated that he had
been separated from his wife for some time, but
allowed her £3OO a-year to maintain her and her
daughter, both of whom had been residing in
Rome for some time past. In September last the
prisoner called on witness, and represented him-
self as Baron Zychlinski, of Zychlin, and that he
had lent Mrs. Maltby £4OO in Rome. The pro-
secutor was induced to believe his statement, and
desired his solicitor, Mr. Campbell, of Nottingham,
to pay the " baron" that sum. Shortly afterwards
the prisoner married his prosecutor's daughter at
Dover ; and from subsequent information he ascer-
tained that the " baron" was a swindler, and had
never lent Mrs. Maltby any money.
Adolphus Sobriski Chkplin Wootoolksi, for-
merly a clerk in the employment of Mr.
Steadman, merchant, of Nottingham, stated
that he was a native of Poland; that he knew
Count Franz Zychlinski, of Zychlin, in the Duchy
of Posen, who had two sons, one of them being at
present an officer in the Prussian Artillery, stationed
in Berlin, and the other was a lad about 15 years of
age, and lived at home with his father. The wit-
ness was certain that the prisoner was not a son, or
in any way related to Count Zychlinski.
In cross-examination, he said that there was only
one Count Zychlinski in the Russian empire. There
was no Baron Zychlinski in Poland.
Mrs. Maltby, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Maltby,
prosecutor, was examined, and denied that she
had ever received any money at all from the priso-
ner. She admitted that she had been in pecuniary
difficulties while sojourning in Rome, and in order
to meet some of her debts she borrowed money
from friends in Italy, but she did not get any such
sum as £4OO from the prisoner. She remembered
having borrowed 1,000 scudi from a clerical friend
in Rome, and having commissioned the prisoner
to pay certain debts which she had incurred,
but he had not done so ; and no later
than that very morning she had received a letter,
written by the secretary of Cardinal Antonelli
stating that he had made inquiries, and had
ascertained that Zychlinski had not paid any of
her debts.

After the hearing of other evidence,
Mr. Yateman addressed the Bench for the defence.
He contended that no case had been made out
against his client, and that no proof had been
adduced to show that the money had been obtained
under false representations.
The magistrates retired, and on returning into
court the mayor stated that the Bench were of opi-
nion that no case had been made out against the
prisoner, but that they thought proper, however.
to remand him for eight days for the production
of an important witness from Berlin. If that
evidence were not forthcoming at that time he
should be discharged.
This announcement was received with loud cheers
by the audience.
The prisoner was then removed in custody, hav-
ing failed to obtain the required bail.

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