THE BATHING BANDIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 23

THE BATHING BANDIT

ANOTHER CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE! A man dressed in a bathing costume rancor his life through the fields and woods near the River Fulda at Cassel in Germany. And after him ran six hundred other people, also in bathing costumes. The six hundred won. • And the fugitive had to be taken off to gaol to save him from the angry six hundred. But the fugitive had this consolation —that he had invented an entirely new and original form of robbery. And this was how he did it. There is a big open-air swimming bath in the River Fulda, with dressing cabins all around it. He used to go into the river at a point some distance away from the swimming bath and swim under water until he came up to the bathers. Then (says Reuter) he would rob the bathing cabins, tie jewellery and money into a belt around his waist, and swim off again—under water. He has been doing this for months. Then one day somebody noticed him as he was about to swim away. He had filled his belt too full and he seemed very stout. There was a rush of investigators. And soon a man in a bathing costume was running for his life across the fields, with six hundred other people also in bathing costumes close at his heels.