Germany's Great Joker.
A Daily .Mail note of 13th June states that Wilhelin Yoigt, the rob-ber-cobbler and ''Captain of Koepenick," appears to Jiave perpetrated another delicious hoax on his Katherland. On I.2th Juno tlic official Wollf Telegraph Agency supplied the German Press .with ''exclusive , ' news that Voigt died iti a London hospital three days previously. For tlio past twenty-four hours the newspapers in all parts of the country have been publishing sympathetic obituaries of the ingenious rogue who made the whole world roar after his h\'Y( 43nu1v12-!3(i512312 with merriment after his immortal military exploit at the. town hall of Kooponiek in October. lOOli. Voigt. however, is Tiot dead, hut very much alive. He is said to have arrived a-t the. town of Lauscha. in the riniringiau Forest, at Hie request of
a circus -tour, in company with a troupe <>f itinerant glass-blowers. Meanwhile the IWlinor Tagehlatt prints what purports to he a letter from Voigt. tolling liow horrified he was an ■arriving at Tlniringia to find his <; death" the solo topic of conversation in railway trains, restaurants, and streets.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 August 1912, Page 4
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