He was at length arrested, but nothing decisive
appearing against him, was in the end set at liberty. The police,
however, kept a strict watch upon his movements, and thus discovered
that he left home frequently, taking always the same road, and
invariably giving his watchers the slip in the neighborhood of that
labyrinth of narrow and crooked passages known by the flash name of
the 'Dondergat.' Finally, by dint of great perseverance, they traced
him to a garret in an old house of seven stories, in an alley called
Flatzplatz,- and, coming upon him suddenly, found him, as they
imagined, in the midst of his counterfeiting operations. His agitation
is represented as so excessive that the officers had not the slightest
doubt of his guilt. After hand-cuffing him, they searched his room, or
rather rooms, for it appears he occupied all the mansarde.
Opening into the garret where they caught him, was a closet, ten
feet by eight, fitted up with some chemical apparatus, of which the
object has not yet been ascertained. In one corner of the closet was a
very small furnace, with a glowing fire in it, and on the fire a
kind of duplicate crucible- two crucibles connected by a tube.
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