A DARING THEFT.
BERLIN, October 17
A man wearing a captain's uniform and bearing a forged military ■order, met a corporal and eleven Guardsmen marohing tu Berlin with documents. He induaed them to follow bimjjto the Town Hall at Kopeniok, eight miles away, where he urrestod the Mayor and took four thousand marks from the safe. The man ordered the Mayor to be escorted to prison at Berlin, and told a portion of the Guardsmen to remain and guard the Town Hall. The rogue then disappeared.
Received Ootober 18, 9.56 p.m. LONDON, OotoLer 18,
Reuter's Berlin correspondent states that the pseudo captain changed bis uniform for civilian clothes at Rixdolf, where his sword found. After arresting the Mayor in the Kaiser's name he tried to extort from the terrified officials the municipal savtngß bank funds, saying that be wanted two million marks. Portunatßly the cashier had departed. The police, impressed by the oaptain's bearing, kept the crowds back while the troops conducted the Mayur to a carriage, a police sergeant and a grenadier convey him to Berlin.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8265, 19 October 1906, Page 5
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