FREDERICK C. SCHAFER.
The celebrated German travelled Frederick Christian Schafer, who had been in nearly every country, has come to grief at Sydney. Re was found hatless and bootless, shrieking and foaming at the mouth in a fit. A. short time since his friends there among the Masonic brethren paid hia expenses home to Germany, and * sent him to Melbourne, but he found bis way back-. He is now considered deranged, and was locked up for his own The Bench considered it a pitiable case-. Schafer is totally unable to earn i a living, being deformed. Two certified that he was of unsound mind, and he was sent to the Callen Bark Asylum. It will be remembered (says. ; the Southland News) that Schafer soru# 1 years ago Qt me to Invercargill -pp hijj way through the colony, and thst he signalised his visit to the Nprtb Island by marrying a Maori girh
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Kumara Times, Issue 1364, 14 February 1881, Page 2
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