BOGUS JUDGES.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4309, 12 November 1909, Page 5

BOGUS JUDGES.

PLAY THE KOPENICK TRICK. (Received 12, 8.5 a.m) London. November II Luedke (formerly a minor clerk in the Berlin Provincial Court), Meyer (a cook) and Warnicke (a cyclist) went into the First Civil Court at Berlin abouc the hour at which the judges retire and donned the judges' robes and birettas, which they had stolen from the conference room. They installed themselves at the table in the records room and examined the documents showing moneys due to advances for litigants' costs. They next filled in and stamped the forms necessary to secure payment. Meanwhile attendants on entering imagining the judges were conferring apologised and retired or else were ordered to quit. Immunity from detection was due to the multitude of judges and arbitrators being dressed alike. Two of the impersenotors collected £2OO before the police accidentally got on their track. Finally they were arrested.