MASQUERADE AS JUDQ ES

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 663, 13 November 1909, Page 5

MASQUERADE AS JUDQ ES

k BERLIN CEIMEi a self-constitu.ted'geeman court. (By Telceraph-I'ross Aesoclatlon-OopyrighU London, November 11. Lueilko, formorly a minor clork in the Berlin Provincial Court, Moyer, a cook, and Warnicke, a cyclist, went to tho First Civil Court in Berlin about the hour at which tho judges retire, and effected a remarkable mas<iucrailo. - i ' 'flie throo intruders donned judges' roboa and birettas, which had been 6tolen from the. conference room, and installed themselves at tho judges" table. Here they examined the records in tho room. , Documents 'showing moneys due to be advanced for litigants' costs wore next filled in, and the forms necessary to secure payment uoro stamped. _ Meanwhile, tho attendants entering, imagining that the jifdges wore conferring, apologised and retired, or wero peremptorily ordered to quit. That tho fraud was not discovered was duo to tho multitude of judges and arbitrators about tho court, who wero all dressed alike. The trio collected a sum equal-to J!2Op beforo tho police, who bad accidentally got on their track, finally arrived.