Some interesting cases of theft and fraud are reported :
A banker's parcel, containing 13611. in notes, bills, and cheques, posted in the Louth Post-office, never arrived at its destination. How it was abstracted from the mail-bags is not known, but it is clear that the thieves must have been experienced hands, for two 100/. notes which were in the parcel have been changed in Paris ! Four colliery proprietors have been accused, at Dudley, of stealing 10,300 tons of cool. The story is that they leased a pit supposed to be worked out. To the surprise of every one they drew up coal far superior to that ever before obtained from the mine. The workmen in the next pit heard the noise of labour, and then it was suspected that trespass was taking place. So it proved, on an examination of the pit : the four proprietors were infringing on the rights of a neighbour. A romantic story comes from Nottingham. The "Baron Zych- linski" became acquainted with the family of the Rev. Mr. Maltby, wooed Miss Maltby, and won her. He represented himself to be the Baron Zychlinski, son aud heir-at-law of Count Zychlinski, of Zychlin, near Warsaw. He also stated that he was captain of cavalry in the Prussian service. He then said that he had befriended the wife of the reverend gentleman, when she was staying in Emile and suffer- ing from pecuniary difficulties, and also that he possessed her written acknowledgments for what he had advanced. The repayment of the money, he said, was only a secondary consideration, as compared with 'being able to satisfy his family of the respectability of the Madtbys, in order that he might have the consent of his own family to take Miss Maltby in marriage. The reverend gentleman believed, paid the baron 100/., and gave him his daughter in marriage. Suspi- cions arose, and the Baron was found to be—a Prussian deserter ! His wife was taken from him; he was arrested as soon as he could be found, and is now in custody.
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