The Kopenick mystery has been solved. The "sham Captain," who
has been captured by the police, turns Out to be a cobbler named Voigt, who had spent twenty- seven out of his fifty-iariren yeare in gaol, and was released only a few -Months ago, after serving a long term of imprison. Merit. His battered and disreputable appearante, and the fact that be had never served in the Army, ran der the satirical 'significance of his exploit all the greater. Of this Voigt himself seems to have been fully aware, Per When one of the detectives expressed his surprise that any One could have allowed an old man to pass as a Captain without asking him to show his authority, the cobbler replied: "Sir, I do not know who you are, but even if you had come with your Oberregierungsrath and your police president, do you think I should have first entered into a long palaver with you P I should simply have said to the soldiers,' Take those fellows by the scruff of the neck and march them off in custody,' and then you would have seen how quickly you would have been sent flying." It is only fair to the Germans to say that they have been as keenly alive to the "national psychology" of the incident as the most censorious foreign critics. By one of the latter, the Viennese Die Information, we are reminded that the Hohenlohe Memoirs and the Kopenick farce have come to hand exactly one hundred years after Jena, and both point a moral from which much may be learnt.
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