THE COBBLER OF KOEPENICK.
RELEASED FROM PRISON (Received 9.55 a.m.)
BERLIN, August 17. Wilhelm Voigt, who in December, 1906, was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment at Berlin for stealing the municipal funds of Koepenick, which he obtained by posing as a captain of Footguards, has been released. The circumstances of Voigt's robbery of the municipal treasury of Koepenick are familiar, and have been kept fresh In memory by one or two imitators of his daring crime. He attired himself in a military uniform, purchased at a pawnshop, picked up a file of soldiers in the street, and marched them to the municipal chambere, where he sent the Mayor a prisoner to Berlin and emptied the Treasury. He was later arrested, and for forgery and the wrong use of a uniform was sentenced to four years' hard labour. Voigt's defence was that he had been driven to the crime by the action of the police in persecuting him by telling his various employers that he had been imprisoned for theft, though Voigt had long reformed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 5
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