THE KOEPENICK HOAX.
BQGUS CAPTAIN SENTENCED.
Reaeived Deaember 3, 8.40 a.m. BERLIN, December 3. The author of the Koepeuiok robbery baß been sentenced to fiur years' Imprisonment on oharges nf forgery, depriving persona of their liberty, and illegally wearing a uniform. (There was a mixture of Gilbert and Sullivan and the elder Dumas in the conception and execution of the offences for wbiob the Koepenlok "captain" has been sentenced. A'patrol ({belonging to an infantry regiment stationed in the town was met by a man dressed iu the uniform of a captain of tbeir regiment, ' who shouted to them to follow his lead. Suspecting nothing, the soldiers followed him to the Municipal Buildings, where the "oaptain" immediately ordered the arrest of the astounded burgermeister, Herr Langerhans, and bis aolleague, the town treasurer, Herr Redent. Next the offloer proceeded calmly to appropriate the whole of the fund? in the town treasury, between 4,000 and 5,000 marks, after which be bade the patrol, which, however astonished it may have been, maintained a military indifference to everything but its instructions, await his return, and decamped. After several hours had elapsed the truth of the situation dawned upon his dupes.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8302, 4 December 1906, Page 5
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195THE KOEPENICK HOAX. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8302, 4 December 1906, Page 5
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