A BRAZEN HOLD-UP
THE ATTEMPT TO SEIZE THE MATOPPO. Now York, April 3. Ernest Schuler, tho German who poized the Matopno, told the authorities that he was formerly an engineer at Hull, where his friend was arrested for signalling to ?iej>polins and shot. Schuler himself wris arrested as a spy and deported. Thirsting for revenge ho planned the seizure of the Matopno. He declared that but for bad luck in the non-an-nearance of his associates, it would have turned out a better trick than that of tho Armani. The captain of tho Matoppo states that as sooil as the vessel # was out at sea Schuler faced him with two revolvers ami ordered "Hands up!" declaring that the vessel was mined, hut if given £2000 it would he all right. Schuler added that as the Mntonno was carrying barbed wire he had a right to sink her. Schuler terrorised tli» crow of twMitysix. mostly cnolios. The captain pleaded for the' safety of his wife and daughter, and this weakened Snhul»v's iintention to destroy tho vessel. Seizi'm an opportunity, the crew overpowered him. TTho Matoopo is n 5280-tnn soiw steamer, built in 1005 for tho Ellerman and Ruoknnll Steam,, Ship Company, of London.7
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160405.2.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2738, 5 April 1916, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
201A BRAZEN HOLD-UP Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2738, 5 April 1916, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in