Litchfield Enquirer

A Cunning Rogue.—A clerk yesterday going down Wall street to make a deposite, had his bank book peering and peeping from his coat pocket while he stopped to gaze at the numerous caricatures near the new Custom House. A well dressed rogue came up behind quietly, and while winking and smiling to the mob, and inviting them by signs to look at a neat trick, he slipped the bank book out of the pocket of the clerk, took out the notes, and returned the book to the pocket, without disturbing the clerk, who was still gazing at the pictures. The bystanders believing him to be an intimate friend of the clerk, were highly tickled at the trick, and laughed and chuckled at the anticipated surprise of the clerk. The rogue walked slowly ahead, turned smilingly to the crowd, put his finger on his lips to enjoin silence, and actually disappeared with a large sum in bank notes, thus obtained openly while hundreds were looking on. No one knew who he was, nor has the money been recovered. It was a bold, and yet a most dexterous robbery.—New-York Star.