The prisoner Hermann Witzler, who was placed on board the N. D.L.8. Buelow at Shanghai for transport to Germany to serve a sentence of imprisonment for robbing mails, made a determined attempt to escape wi steamer was lying in Hongkong bai Making " rope of his bedelothing his own clothes and squeezing himeelf through the porthole of the cabin in which was locked, he noiselesaly let himeelf down into ths water, intending no doubt to swim ashore of make for some vessel in the harbour. The currents were apparently too strong for him, and after he had been in the water abet two ands half hours he was picked up in an exhausted condi-bowler hat.
The coxswain took him to the Water Police Station, where stimulants and clothing were given to him. The inspector on duty regarded the case as one of attempted suicide, questioned him.
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