CLIMBER OF WALLS

Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 4

CLIMBER OF WALLS

BERLIN YOUTH'S MANIA CHASED ACROSS ROOFS. LONDON, March 27. The exploits of a youth whoso mania takes the form of climbing sheer walls, has astonished the city (says the Berlin, correspondent of ‘ Tho Times’). He escaladed a house-front in a busy city square and entered the window of a, fourth-story flat, assuring the lady occupant that she was perfectly sate. She fled, and he locked the door. Then he washed, donned an overcoat and gloves, ate half a cake of soap, and threw a picture at the gaping crowd below.

The fire brigade and a flying squad of police were speedily on the scene, the policemen ambushing the roof in the event of -the adventurer going up, and the firemen spreading a tarpaulin in the event of bis going down. The youth resumed his climb and led the police a chase across the roofs until he was cornered in a loft. He was taken to a police station, where he staggered tho staff by-swarming np a bare wall to the ceiling. When he was placed in a cell the youth climbed tho smooth wall for 12ft to the window sill, where ho sat reciting nursery rhymes to passers-by outside. He was being taken back to the mental hospital from which he had escaped, when he knocked out his attendant, swarmed up a lofty wall, and escaped. He was recaptured next morning. His identity papers gave his name as Prince Joachim of Prussia, fent Ws name jg