Count Otiiejis. — The following is about the celebrated Count Othems. During his imprisonment at Sourabaya lately this well-known swindler, by sickniss,real or feined, got placed in the hospital, and thence succeeded in making his escape, and after a ruitless attempt to get away by the Molucca steamer, he got him self rowed over to Madura, were by dint of self-possession and bounce, he got the native hedman to forward him across the island, under the pertence that he was Captain Stowe, of the U.S S- Hartford, making soundings and surveys between the islands for telegraphic purposes. Meanwhile the news of his escape was telegraphed about, and the Eesident quietly, without imforming him that he knew his secret, forward him back to Sourabaya again, where he remains a prisoner.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 100, 8 January 1870, Page 7
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