THE AUSTRIAN POLICE IN LONDON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 255, 21 April 1865, Page 3

THE AUSTRIAN POLICE IN LONDON.

The Morning Post publishes the following extraordinary story, the truth of which is said to be guaranteed by the person who has supplied it:—

“In the middle of November a young Jewish lady, E. S., came to London on her way to New York, and proceeded to Rucker’s Hotel, Christo-pher-street, Einsbury - square. Her father, a commercial man from Gralica, 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. Sim wished her younger sister to accompany her, v >ut the latter was urable 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 — 1 1 am going to London ; I shall start on Dec. 11.’ This telegram was false. It had not come from her sister, but from the Austrian

police. " The subjoined details are necessary in explanation 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 acquaintance of the family, and was a frequent guest. In the last days of November, E. S. had already departed, and whilst her father was already in America, M. reported to his superior officers thot 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 put iu confinement for 14 days. During this imprisonment the telegram from London arrived, and the answer already mentioned was returned by the police. E. S. knew nothing of all this, but duly awaited the arrival of her sister at the railway station. On the 16th of December, two men came to Sucker’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 unmasked 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 declared that the lady must accompany them to Austria. Naturally E. S. refused to go to the chief police commissioner, as he called himself. The latter, 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 catchpoll of the Tienna police succeeded in lodging the unfortunate young lady, who is little more than 19 years of age, in the debtors’ prison at Whitecross-street, where she has already been incarcerated for nearly three weeks.”