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Senator Schurz And Kinkel

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Day
12
Month
April
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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l''rjlu the l'ull Mali Guzatte. Tho romantic flight of tho agitator Kinkel from the prison at Spandau oxcitod much interest at tho timo. Oue of the Darties to this escapo has just died at itrehlen, near Dresden. Ho was a lnnded proprietor, Adolph Hensel by nuiuo, and his sharo in Kiukel's flight was never discovered tillhis d:ath. Tho Volks 'Aii. ung relates tlm story as follows : On ,he night of the 8th of Xovomber. 1850, iensel, disguised us a coachman, sat waiting on the box of a carriugo close by ho House of Corrojption at Spandau, eady to drivo uway at a momont's notice. lo was accompanied by Cari Scliurz and )r. Friedentliul, and with theiii saw Kincel let bimself down with a ropo frora the giddy height of an opening in the prison :oof. Ho drove oit' at a tearing gallop vith Schurz and Kinkle soon alter midïight. He had chosen his strongost and wittest horses. They prossed on withut a moinent's rest to Oransee, a village ight Germán miles from Spandau. lere the hungry and exhausted horsos vero baited, und at eight o'clock on tho norning of tho 9tli of November the 'ugitives reached the frontier of Streliz, nd arrived at Alstreliz at ono o'clock in ie day. The horses had dono thirteeu ierman miles almost at a stretch. Henel drovo back to his estáte from Alstreliz, nd the fugitivos went on to Kostock, 'rom which place, as is well known, they mbarked for Englund. The pólice novr suceeeded in identiïying the coadunan, without whose assistance the escape could carcely have qeeu affected, and Heusel over experienced any inolestation from ie autkorities.

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Michigan Argus