A RECORD BURGLAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 28 December 1907, Page 3

A RECORD BURGLAR.

The most amazing in Europe, the exact real life of “Raffles,” has arrested at Munich after a burglaries probably modern criminal history by man. He is a Swede, by name, who prepared for . his career as a serving an apprenticeship as a smith. Since then he has as a nobleman, an author, a lionaire, and a diplomat, consummate skill, living princely style in Berlin, Paris, 1 Vienna, and other under different names and ferent disguises. All the has lived by the most burglaries, usually at hotels, though at times he was not from looting the private of a millionaire or an art seur. He has changed his and his address according to sity, and avoided arrest with skill, although the best in Europe have been him for months. Carllson scribed as a man of “ very manly ” appearance, with taste, and pronounced artistic literary inclinations. He great favourite among who where charmed by quisite manners. Carllson noted for his taste in dress, while living in Vienna in guise of a diplomat on is said to have inaugurated a fashion in neckties. When rested Carllson was staying most fashionable hotel in where he occupied an suite, and posed as a nobleman pf great wealth, police found in his sion, in addition to valued at ,£3OOO. It is that his annual income from glaries averaged <£15,000 the past ten years, Carllson his arrest philosophically, threatens to write his while in prison.