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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1922, Page 3

COUNTESS’ IN GAOL. BERLIN, December 12. The problem of how to live on nothing n vear, has been ducuossfujlly solved for four years by Conntes s Chained and her friend, Frau Prager, were arrested yesterday by the Berlin police. Four years ago, the countess, then Fraulein Sclnveider, was a hospital nurse She became friendly, with a war profiteer and acquired a taste for a luxurious life. When tho profiteer found the. police on his track he vanished and the ox-nurse declared he was dead and 'had left her millions. She met Frau Prager, who advised her to become a countess if she wanted to live on nothing a year. An impoverished count was found through a matrimonial agency. He married her for a consideration of 120,000 marks, which, however, the poor man never got. The countess talked everywhere of Ivor enormous wealth, while Frau Prager posed as an English duchess with six' estates. They borrowed 30,000 marks from an actress, 20,000 from another woman for pocket money, and ran. up bills everywhere, including an hotel bill for 70,000 mark's. They aHo now ha ving a prolonged rest from -lie anxiety of contriving to live on nothing a year.

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