PICKPOCKET DUKE
- —■ SENTENCED IN BERLIN. LONDON, June 4. A former Russian Duke, who once was one of the richets members of the Imperial Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg, was this week sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment in Berlin for picking pockets. He is Alexander Kowalevski, who claims the title of Duke Trubetskoj. At the revolution he escaped to Berlin, where he worked as a waiter. He has now been found guilty of picking the pockets of two travellers on the Cologne-Dresden sleeper. From one of them, a Jew recently come from England, he took a wad of ' English pound notes. . He was caught by the railway police and the money recovered.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1938, Page 9
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