THE BANK NOTE ARREST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 12 June 1914, Page 3

THE BANK NOTE ARREST.

SYDNEY POLICE ACTIVE. A SURPRISE AT DINNER-TIME.

"The previous history of the accused is bad, and 'lie is looked upon by the detectives as a dangerous criminal," said tho prosecutor for the Sydney police, when asking for the remand of Rudolph Gutsche, the young Russian who was arrested on a charge of having attempted to forge'a £1 Bank of Australasia note, and who was committed for trial at Sydney yesterday. The files of Syduey papers to hand contain accounts of the sensational arrest made by the detectives. The Evening News states that when four armed men, their identity as detectives not bping revealed for the moment, burst into the dining-room of a house in Eedfern, while dinner was in progress, some of the boarders believed that it was another hold-up .by burglars, and one. of them made a dash for liberty, but the alarm abated when the four detectives, who were members of a party of eight, seized one of tho diners from behind, and had him handcuffed. The arrest was the culmination of work that has been done by: detectives in Sydney for several weeks, the officers having been unusually active in their March for counterfeiters, as a result of information received recently that a gang bad operated very successfully iu Auckland.

fn view of the fact that the New Zealand note manufacturers were described as, being foreigners, careful waHi was kept on a number of Continental men. Criminal haunts, where strangers were likely to congregate, were searched mul guarded, and many clues which proved valueless were followed to a finish.

Detectives in disguise watched houses in various suburbs in which foreigners lived, and on different occasions, men, upon whom suspicion fell, were followed out to Kogarah, Rochdale, Coogec, and even as far as Parramatta. After the arrest the detectives escorted the suspect up to his room, on the third door, and seized a considerable quantity of property, which included a loaded automatic pistol, found under the .mattress at the head of the bed, a quantify of photographic and process engravers' materials, mechanical drawings, valuable lenses, prisms, plates, chemicals, zinc plates, printing materials, one Bank of Australasia note, and a box containing a number of revolver cartridges.

At the Court, before the remand wa.s asked for, the police stated that it wa.s not the first time that the accused had come under the notice of the police for forgery, 'although he had never been convicted. He was the associate of u man, still a,t largo, who was suspected of forgery, and of another who was serving a sentence of seven years for an offence similar to that with which the accused was charged. A remand until June 10 was granted.