A KOEPENICK IMITATOR.
GERMAN POST OFFICE TRICKED A MAIL STOLEN. United Press Association. Copyright BERLIN, Dec. 27. A man .in uniform “Koepenicked” the post office at Munich, where he asked for and obtained possession ol the entire mail for Nuremberg, and then disappeared. - . * - [Koepenick, an old offender, attired himself in a' captain’s uniform, imposed on a party of soldiers whom he met on the road, and marched at their head into - a small German town, where ..the Mayor and othe-i officials under arrest, and made off avith the cash in the civic treasury. He was afterwards arrested.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2385, 29 December 1908, Page 5
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97A KOEPENICK IMITATOR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2385, 29 December 1908, Page 5
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