Kasebier was actually sent for, pardon promised him if he could do the State a service.

Kasebier smuggled himself twice, perhaps three times, into Prag; but the fourth time he did not come back." [Retzow, i.108.

n.] Another Note says: "Kasebier was a Tailor, and Son of a Tailor, in Halle; and the expertest of Thieves.

Had been doing forced labor, in Stettin, since 1748; twice did get into Prag; third time, vanished.

A highly celebrated Prussian thief; still a myth among the People, like Dick Turpin or Cartouche, except that his was always theft without violence." [Preuss, ii.