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Show JC 5IATOR SCHUHZ AND K1XKKL. The romantic flight of the agitator Mnkel from the prison at Spandau excited ex-cited much interest at the time. One of the parties to his escape has just 1 died in Strehlen. near Dresden. He was a landed proprietor, Adolrh Hen-.-el by name, and his share in Kinkel's tl'ght was never discovered till his ! death. The Volks Ztitung relates the j story a? follows : On the night of the I Sth of November, lhO, Hensel, dis- j guised as a eoaebman, sat waiting on I tho box ol' a carriage, close by the House of Correction at Spandau, ready to drive away at a moment's notice. He was accompanied by Carl Schurz and Or. h'rie Jen thai, and with them saw Kinke! let himself down with a rope irom the giddy heights of an opening in the priiu rooL He drove elf at a tearing gallop with Schurz and Kinkel, soon after midnight. He had chosen his strongest aud swiftest horses. They picssed on without a moment's rest to Gransee, a village eight German miles from Spandau. Here the hungry and exhausted horses were baited, and at S o'clock on the morning of the 9th of November the fugitives reached the I frontier of Strehts, and arrived at Al-streliiz Al-streliiz at 1 o'clock in the day. The Imrscs had done thirteen German miles almost at a stretch. Hensel drove back to his estate i'rom Alstrclitz, and lhe fugitives went on to Bolstock, from which place, as is well known, they embarked for Knglaud. The police never succeeded in identifying tho coachman, without whose assistance the escape could scarcely have been effected, and Hensel never experienced any molestation from the authorities. Pall Mall GazeW. |