CAVE DWELLER.
ALIEN'S DEN IN SYDNEY, FORGING BANK NOTES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 18, 9.50 p.m. | Sydney, Nov. 18. Joseph Schmidt, the cave dweller, pretended insanity and dumbness and attempted to commit suicide. Doctors express the opinion that the accused is a malingerer. The jury found that he was not insane and returned a verdict that lie was guilty of a charge ot possessing materials for making bank notes. [At the beginning of September, the Sydney police unearthed an extraordinary cave overlooking the middle of the harbor, occupied by an alien and his wife, the latter being dressed in men's clothes. The cave, which was comfortably furnished, contained a number of suspicious articles believed to be used in reproducing bank notes.] Received Nov. lfl, 12.55 a.m. Sydney, Nov. 18. Schmidt was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1919, Page 5
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137CAVE DWELLER. Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1919, Page 5
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