KOEPENICK AGAIN.
TOWN HALL ROBBED. (BY TBLBOBAPH—PBESS •ABSOCIATIOKr-COPTBIODT.) (Reo. January 9, 1.3 a.m.) Berlin, January? B,'.■: ; While all the. police at KOepenick.: yer.e'on! duty in' the' streets,Wrglars^Sfitgreds"^th'e';5"^ th'e' ; Town Hall and stole £80.* \ ' v.' . Koepenick is keeping, up .its reputation. - It was inv'this German ; ;town-.that"'a man wearing a uniformand/bearing"»- forged ■-niilf-' tary order, met a corporal, and eleven'Gijkrds-: 1 men marching to Berlin with' documents. He •induced theiS to follow'him to the Town' Hall :at Koepenick, eight. miles away, ■ "where ; he ; 'ar-' rested ; the' -Mayor and-, Jook' Ufour -thousand- , marks, from-the-safe! imahVordered: the' Mayor to : be escorted to prison at"Berlin,'and told-a:portion 'of the .Guardsmen-to/remain and" guard the. To"wn l Hall.»'.Tlie .rogue- then':disappearod; Ha was'.;afterwards identified: as a man named Voigt, notorious criminal, who Kad served sentences aggregating several years : for theft and forgery.- He. was arrested about a week later,: 'and. pn was convicted and sentenced to four, years' , imprisonment.' ' '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 401, 9 January 1909, Page 5
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