ALIEN'S RED FLOWER.
DETECTIVE'S TRAP TO CATCH A CRIMINAL. The story of an exceedingly clever capture was told at the Clerkemvell Sessions on May 24. Johann von Bobrmv, a Russian engineer, was wanted by the police for having obtained £75 form a German domestic servant, to whom he had proposed ma.rriage, and Detective-Ser-geant King inserted an advertisement in a. German newspaper published in London stating that a young womaJi with £200 desired a husband. Bobrow answered, and an appointment was made with the supposed woman at Holland Park Tube Station. He said he would wear a red flower, and when the detective recognised him by this aiid arrested him, he was much surprised. He has undergone various sentences abroad, and is wanted at Vienna for bigamy and fraud. Meanwhile, he will spend twelve months in an English priso-n.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8374, 21 July 1905, Page 2
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138ALIEN'S RED FLOWER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8374, 21 July 1905, Page 2
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