ANOTHER KOPENICK TRICK.
Received June 16, 9 a.m. ODESSA, June 15. A burglar at Odessa, dressed as a captain of gendarmerie, imitated the example of the German at Kopenick, a year or two ago. He telephoned for armed detectives to proceed to the Governor's residence and search a house in the vicinity, which he rifled, then sending them back. The facts in connection with the Kopenick incident are as follow:—A man wearing a captain's uniform and bearing a forged military order met a corporal and several guardsmen marching to Berlin with documents. He induced them to accompany him to the Town Hall at Kopenick, eight miles away, where he arrested the Mayor and took four thousand marks from the safe. After ordering the Mayor to be escorted to prison at Berlin, and telling a portion of the Guardsmen to remain and guard the Town Hall the man disappeared. He wa3 afterwards identified as a man named Voigt, a notorious criminal. He was tried and sentenced to four years' imprisonment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9117, 17 June 1908, Page 5
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169ANOTHER KOPENICK TRICK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9117, 17 June 1908, Page 5
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