THIS LOVE-THIEF
BKRIdN, Nov. 18. A few <l;ivs ago it girl was displaying her wonderful s:ippliiro alid diamond rings at tea-time in a fashionable Berlin hotel. She dropped. her handkerchief, and a handsome voting man at the next table picked it up. They bonan to talk. The young man was so charming that the girl promised to go for a walk with him next day. So she did, nhd also oil the following day. latter the two wandered hand iii hatid through the golden woods of (Iritnewald. Suddenly a nilfian stepped out from the trees and shot the man dead —at least, so the girl thought. She was thankful to escape with her life at l lie cost of her diamond and sapphire rings which the ruffian stole. She hurried for the police and brought them to the spot where her lover had fallen. There was no trace rf the unhappy man. This morning the police found him in a nursing home, where he said he was being treated for nerve shock. In fact he was quite well, aiid under pressure confessed that the whole occurrence was a comedy of thieves. The ruffian in the wood was liis confederate and his wea|x>u was a toy pistol loaded with a percussion cap.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1921, Page 3
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211THIS LOVE-THIEF Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1921, Page 3
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