MISTAKEN FOR EX-CROWN PRINCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 19 July 1920, Page 6

MISTAKEN FOR EX-CROWN PRINCE.

Arrested by fishermen because lie was believed to be .the German exCrown Prince escaping from Holland, Karl Otto, a Berlin painter, was afterwards discovered to be a notorious jewel thief, for whom the police had been searching for months. Last December Otto inveigled a 17-lyear-oklj jeweller's apprentice. Karl Goldschmitz, to part with £300,000 worth of jewels. Both lived for some time in the most luxurious hotels in Germany on {he proceeds of the gradual sale of the jewels, until, panicstricken by the publication of their portraits in police placards, they fled the country. Peaching Hamburg, they bribed a sailor to purchase a sailing yacht to convey Otto to Denmark. The vessel 'was chafed by a police motor boat from ' Tlraven'iunde.. yet Otto managed to(. escape in a mist. Ho \v;>>' wrecked I of the Denmark coast, where the inbabitants of Korsor arrested him. under the impression that he was the i German ex-Crown Prince. The .local fishermen, after comparing him with pictures in the illustrated papers, eventually released him. He reached Norway, where he again lived luxuriously on the proceeds of the jewels, to which he held fast dur- | ing the wreck. Goldschmitz joined him at Christiahia with his fiancee.