JEKYLL AND HYDE.
HIS PAST EXHUMED. A PHILANTHROPIST-BRIGAND. By Tele'sraph-Press Asspclatlon-CoDyrUht ■ Berlin, April 13. During tb,e hearing of evidence in a libel action, Karl May, a septuagenarian millionaire philanthropist, an author of pious books, and a prominent personality in German public.life, was proved to be identical with a notorious brigand. . It was pJiqwn tjiat lip had been sentenced to two terms of imprisonment, and had committed numerous crimes of violence in Southern Saxony, forty years ago. May collapsed when ho heard the evidence, and had to bo placed under supervision to prevent him committing suicide.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 5
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95JEKYLL AND HYDE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 5
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