Special edition of the Copenicker daily newspaper of October 17th, 1906:
"A rogue play, devised extremely impudently and cunningly and put daringly into scene, recognized therefore only much later as a such one, brought the feelings of the city of Copenick in excitement yesterday. The details of the whole event are so unpronounceably and so grotesquely, that if one hasn't looked at it himself, one must doubt the truth of the whole history. If one considers that a crafty confidence trickster who has dressed in an officer uniform has succeeded in stopping twelve soldiers from the guard duty on their way to the barracks in Berlin and directing these because of his mere order to Copenick, occupying the city hall there, arresting the mayor, the upper town secretary and the cashiers office administrator and then escaping unmolestedly with the 'confiscated' cash-box, one then cannot prevent a shake of the head."

Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger of October 17th, 1906:
"An occurrence, which is in the local criminal history without example, has taken place in the neighboring Koepenick in yesterday's evening. A rogue has there in the mask of a guard officer with the help of a department soldiers, whom he deceived by a forged cabinet order, arrested the mayor and the cashiers office administrator, had both transported under military guarding to Berlin and then the town cash-box, in which were a little more than 4000 marks in cash, robbed. Police and rural police are in feverish activity to get the rogue, who unchallengedly escaped with his robbery."

[Berliner Morgenpost ... ] of October 17th, 1906:
"A robber story, so adventurous and romantic as we know it from novelistic stories, as it would have seemed to us till now possibly only in the Russian revolution chaos or in an Italian brigand idyll, has fulfilled our neighboring town Koepenick with a paralyzing horror for hours yesterday. There a - one may say brilliant - swindler in an officer uniform has managed to put the rural police, the mayor, the cashiers office administrator and a department of 10 soldiers into his service only so that he could get away with 4000 marks from the town treasury and to disappear unhinderedly with that. The swindler who wore a Prussian Captain uniform with cap intercepted a department of ten soldiers who marched from the shooting range to Berlin and moved to Koepenick with them in front of the city hall. He arrested the mayor and the cashiers office administrator and sent them under military escort to the Berlin main police station, he himself went by suburban train of it."

Newspaper for Mittenwalde and surroundings of October 18th, 1906:
"An outrageous rogue trick has been performed in Koepenick on Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoon a department of the 4th guard regiment arrived under leadership of a man dressed into the uniform of a captain in Koepenick, went to the city hall and arrested the mayor and the cashiers office administrator. After the alleged captain took over the cash-box 4000 marks contained, he assigned the order to bring the mayor and the cashiers office administrator under a military company to the new guard duty in Berlin, gave the teams the order to keep the city hall occupied for another half an hour and then he drove from it towards Berlin. The team, which was coming from the shooting range Tegel and stopped and led to Koepenick by the alleged captain showing a forged cabinet order,  moved away to the barracks later. How we still learn the 'captain' maltreated the soldiers on the journey to Koepenick with beer at the station Rummelsburg as well on the arrival at the station in Koepenick where he still submitted a Mark to every soldier. Furthermore the rogue also would have succeeded in closing the post office in Koepenick for telephonic conversations to Berlin for an hour."

Rixdorfer daily newspaper of October 18th, 1906:
"A police communication over the person of the robber reads: The robber of the town treasury in the Koepenicker city hall who appeared as a 'captain' disguised is about 45 to 50 years old and has an approximate size of 1.75 meters. He is of a slim shape, has a gray down hanging strong mustache and chin shaved. The face is broad, hollow and pale, a cheekbone is prominently so that the face seems wry. The nose is pressed in, the legs have turned a little to the outside (so-called bandy legs). The posture is inclined strongly to the front, a shoulder stands out to behind so that the shape also seems a little crooked. He was dressed with an infantry uniform, cap, a greatcoat with the captain badges of the 1st guard regiment on foot, with long trousers, boots with plugged spurs, white gloves and a sash. He carried an officer rapier with guard star."

The Vorwaerts of October 19th, 1906:
"The heroic deed of the false captain is the talk of the town at present. One goes to a restaurant, goes by train or uses the tramway everywhere one hears talking about the heroic piece. And how talks one, not at all so, that one is outraged perhaps about the robbery of the town treasury in Koepenick, but in the mocking, sarcastic tone; a certain malicious joy sounds by about the Koepenicker stroke of genius everywhere. It isn't possible in view of this occurrence to remain serious at all either. The satirists are then very fast to judge the situation to the most different directions, too. Nimble-fingered rhymesters have taken the Koepenicker tragicomedy to poetic form. The stage also has already taken hold of the history. A number of soldiers who confined themselves to all orders of the Captain to nod marched up in the [Metropol Theatre ... ] yesterday. (...) For a long time, the love of mockery hasn't celebrated such triumphs like now. One is virtually filled with admiration for the brilliant captain everywhere; one is often even sorry that the pay has been too low for the farce. Others, however, express the opinion that the man still can be surpassed. One needs to get himself only the necessary energy and to put himself into a General uniform to finally get a whole regiment soldiers at the disposal."

[Berliner Morgenpost ... ]
"That a whole community with all its public functions, yes that a department soldiers was shown up by one single person in a way which is so overwhelmingly funny and been successful completely, this has done in our country of the unlimited deep respect for uniforms a military garment with which an old, bow-legged individual had hung itself provisionally."

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