Show f. f K SOLDIERS JOKE Of EUROPE Audacity of Man Who Hoax Brought Him I 0 Sympathy HIS SCHEME A NOVEL ONE t Compelled s 's to io IlI n to Rob Itoh time the CI City I Treasury 4 I I. I Berlin BellIn Dee 1 l. William Voigt dill hof liot I maker an and alli bogus army officer who I made Kaiser Williams William's sol soldiers lers th h Joke joke Joko of all an Europe thou through h his hil Impressing Im Im- pressing SIng a a. company compan or soldiers to tu as slat him In In robbing the tile treasury o of after atter making tho tic burgomaster burgo burgo- J- J master and treasurer prisoners and i k sending them hem away to under jaiL military mili J. J tar tat tary escort will pay the penalty of or hl hi crime and Joke by ly serving four foUl year In prison has already 1 spent the greater portion of his life behind i 1 tho the bars for Ol numerous offenses Vol ts t's audacity In carrying out his hl robbery has so charmed the people leoPie of Germ Germany Germany Ger Ger- m many n hO however hOer er that thal an effort will probably be made mode to Induce the tue to pardon parlon him r. r When the trial of the tho cobbler t began be be- gan gnu Saturday the court room was Wll crowded and hundreds hundreds- of or persons b be besieged be- be the tho building striving In vain to tn pass the military guard 1 that th had been established The Koepenick robbery has been more wl widely el heralded throughout hout Germany and und all Europe I for tor that thal matter than any similar event of recent years cars Th There re were thousands of oC persons persons- etson who wanted to ta get a 0 look at the man mami who had halt created the th l furore furore- I Sd me Was as Novel No Vol Voigt's robbery T scheme was a n. aone o I one Finding his efforts l lo U lead ead i honest W were hampered by police po V h he 6 Y P l 1 K al alti ti oX expense n f. f l' l the tb o c UT b t YlI lI Gt Geelan ny 1 J. J C i v rah t. t 4 eo h i c p g re m HUC rt it hIt 1 Y a T fl It ft Ir I r pt rr tJ fj t tit i t C 0 l do JJ od J d in fu Iho hl tho If IUM IlIN In corn corn- corn corn- mand to thom Horn to follow v u Jil him UJ ria ob obeyed cd with without ou t 1 juc Ion flon t marched marcher on the tow to II hall of or I I ole nick Ho lie placed th dma ht anti and tr under treasurer r under a ZUt arrest e. e t. t rhe fhe treasurer wes es ordered led to 10 open his safe counted out all the available l' cash Ish h. h save e the treasurer U u n 1 receipt r lpt limit nud ol ordered 1 tho the soldiers to take them to tha time prison In 13 Berlin It was hour beo before e C the 10 fraud J was wag discovered b by that HuH time 0 t had disappeared ed but was wes hunted down and nd Allotted am I Cheered by 1 nl Crowd K l I II i I It was a n miserable looking utile I man bowed bo with age Je who faced facet the i I court But the lie crowds guvo JY Voigt a aI i I cheer I when he was marched lo to time the I prisoners prisoner's dock As the In Incidents In- In CI of his Ial raid l were recounted h by witnesses res many man r laughs followed Collo The r H court was was shocked shocked but tho the police pollee could not J k ep f order Then camo camo caine VoIgt's personal defense f t II lit HI show showed id that after his last from prison a year 15 sentence e having t been boon completed he o 1 had tried tIled to lend lead an nfl honest 11 life But Dut police pollee persecution i Dined m his life lie pleaded de ho he was ww forced to return to evil e ways His Ills Idea plen af of extenuating in won tho Ow IU crowd Had he lIe b been en allowed to lo don doti hl his bogus uniform which Was vas displayed ills dis played d In court he hc IH probably bably would h l ha hawon i won his lila case cae But Rut this was VB 1 denied and und a u verdict of guilty guilt was wa rendered The file penalty penally was wa fixed at r ral ears ears' imprisonment But he J is now flOW noa a popular Idol anti and a pardon purdon will willI I b h. h ought for foi him |