AFTER MANY YEARS.
♦ GERMAN SENSATION. A MILLIONAIRE PHILANTHROPIST. PROVED TO BE AN EX-BRIGAND. By Telegraph. —Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 14, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, 13th April. During the hearing of evidence in a libel action, Karl May, a septuagenarian millionaire philanthropist, an author of pious books, and a prominent personality in German public life, was proved to be identical with a notorious brigand, who had been sentenced to two terms of imprisonment, and who had committed numerous crimes of violence in Southern Saxony, forty years ago. May collapsed when he heard the cvi dence, and had to be placed under supervision to prevent him committing suicide.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 87, 14 April 1910, Page 7
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106AFTER MANY YEARS. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 87, 14 April 1910, Page 7
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