Star.
London, England, 1829-02-09 00:00:00

POLICE 'INTELLIGENCE.

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iiFireivnore sobbeft Ateselately been
die Caittinent,'and are 'believed to haie taken up their
te. this nietropoils. A young German, dressed id a very
falbilinable manner, was symeheoded. upon the ebarge of having
tildeffa.aernian, named Bertram; In tvgaping from Writ. enil
tamling 31 Austrian Bonds, value 31,000 trance. or about.3.oPd.
00 slit 'Leib of January. Bertram arrived at Leipslc IroM
t but fo the printipal 1 lotel, and ordered tiro rooms. FG rummaged
anionpt his ors and ordered the waiter to request that some if
*moat eminent brokers should Immediately wait upon biiii.--
Ilartnipt told the brokers that be wanted a number of Austrian.
s: The brokers returned with SI bonds, the mice of Whicksiss
51.000 francs. Very well,"' said Bertram, taking the'boWss
" bring you out the money," upon which be retired to an 'ad.
joinintrooto. He bad sent out the waiterlor the pilaw of abide-
lag some of the cash of the country, for 100 soverelgua, and
Immediately after be retired to the ocher apartment, the waiter
Mitered; and Beneath called out to him to leave the matey upoo
eke table. This sebum, was laid by Bertram fur the purpose of
giving him dme. to escape, He got out at the back of the home.
sad was many mike upon the road to Paris before it was discovered
that he had disappeared from the hotel—the sum of money upon
the table having hushed the apprehensions of the brokers for a cue
ddorable time. The depredator, it is believed, is in Condom; be
bad been traced to Paris, but there all clue we* lest ; the prisoner
at the Mansion House was suspected to be the confederatelor die
following strung reasons s—The prisoner arrived at Leipsic on the
ilidnoUlanuary and departed on the 17ib ; the only time he left
!liillatigings; on the Nib of January;was at twelve o'clock, and he
Interned at two and Bertram left his hotel between twelve and
'WO; this coincidence, combined with what occurred in London,
'threw a degree of suspicion upon the prisoner, that he was conscious
-mt:pd aiding and abetting in, the robbery; on Friday the prison r
called at the dike of one of the highest brokers in the Foreign Stock
sachange, and said he had some Austrian Bonds for sale, bet as be
was about to leave London, be must have the value immediately ;
he then put into the hands of the broker Skeen Austria, bonds, and
demanded the money,but the latter found that ihey,lurried pat: of
the Lcipsk plunder, and detained him. • •
Mr. Nobler, jun. submitted, epos the part of the prisoner, that
the Magistrate had ao jurisdiction in 'Macaw. It was cestaiuly
evident that ,atobbery had been committed at 'Amok, but the
City of London had no power to interfere. Besides, the car
t against the prisoner, as to Isis being at Leipsie under the circuits-,
mamas described, was merely one of sulkiest, upon the shah(
hiti2=2of a correspondent.
Ammar felt that the case was one of great sospicino.
but the offence was not committed within their jurisdiction, amil
.should be obliged oadischatge the pristitier: '
The pitman was rejoiced at his dismissal, and seemed to hood
no inclination to demand the bonds.
Bow-irrn BET.

Saturday J. Pad. twenty live. years of age, a German, was
charged with swindling. lies. Honer stated, she kept a lodging-
home in &Asbury-street, Strand. Od the gist of December last,
the prisoner kind apattraents of her at a rent of font guineas per
week; he represented himself as a foreign merchant, and mkt he
bad a weasel with a large cargo lying in the Thames, which he el-
pected would be cleared at the C 4140111 buglee in the course of a
few days. His appearance and manner completely lulled all sus-
picion, and she let him have the apartments. She also supplied
him with dinners, wines, Ste. and on two or three occasions be had
a large party of friends to dine with him. On Tuesday week be
told her he had not audicierit money to pay the duties at the Cul
tont house, and requested the loan of £5, promising to repay it
the next day ; she refused to lend hint the money, tel.• qi him be
was already sudiciently in her debt. He replied, with nee
digiespos." I can procure the money of my WM." and he went
opt, yromisiag return In the evening, but be turgid to keep his
she saw no more of him until Friday. night, when a•
friend who Inept alodgine-hoe in Northumberland-street, having
beard bow she bad been duped, sent to inform her that abe um-
petted one of her lodgers was the delinquent—Me teem' there,
saw the prisoner, and gave him Ina custody. The complainant
'here handed hi a lung bill, and • Pt. flastli; on wadi/ it, re-
Marked that the psisener appeared to hive lived Iron the 'fat of
the land.
Cuss, an tater, stated, that searching him, be found a amnia,
tandum in German, of the different lodging-houses where he had
tiken up his residence, and a sort of calculation of the amount
Which be had let itch of them in *fur. AIM a memtirandum• of
different lodgings to let, which be evidently intended visiting—
besides shout forty different duplicates fur wearing apparel, width
be bad obtained from various iradisnicri. lie,bad bred a ready
furnished house, in Opper Seymbui wreet, at a rent of sou( a-yeati
The prisoner, in his defence, said hi was a itrangerAnd that be
would pay the money ea soon as he could. •
Mr. HALLS observed that he wai not is great a stranger but
that be knew bow to dupe the People of this country, who. he re-
gretted to say, Were too easily taken in by Melt vagabonds its Wren.
He PM the complainant that her's, was a mess Matter of debt,
and advised her to be more cautious in future.
lie prisoner was then dieellsraed. He is:a yoing*.inan, about
live feet eight -inches high, with light bale; and sets dressed in a'
blue summit coat, black waistcoat and troy-ers, and Wellington
boots; he speaks Bngls6 tolerably well, but with a strong thelthill
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accent.