THE BITER BIT
COBBLER OP KOPENICK DUPED
FINED BY SHAH OFFICERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
(Rec. May 27, 0.25 a.m.) Berlin, May 27. Germany is laughing at a misadventure which has befallen Wilholm Yoigt, tho famous cobbler of Kopenick. \ oigt, it will be remembered, attired as a captain in the army, and accompanied by soldiers whom his apparent rank had deceived, in 1900 took ihe Mayor of Kopenick prisoner on a fictitious charge of having falsified accounts and absconded with a considerable sum of municipal money. Voigt, who was arrested, and sentenced to imprisonment, and afterwards released and sent into exile, has been living in Luxemburg. A few days ago he secretly crossed tho frontier into Germany at Gossir. The famous adventurer, however, was soon stopped by two men dressed in uniform, who demanded .£l4 from him as a line for re-entering Germany. On being threatened with imprisonment, Voigt paid .£6, and telegraphed the balance, no then left Germany hurriedly. Afterwards Voigt discovered that he had been duped, and that tho men were not officials.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1761, 28 May 1913, Page 7
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174THE BITER BIT Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1761, 28 May 1913, Page 7
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