GIRL SWINDLER.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1922, Page 4

GIRL SWINDLER.

VIENNA, Oct 2. j A pretty girl swindler, for whom the Vienna police have been searching fori two years, lias lieun tracked down and arrested at Wolkersdorf. near the Hun-J garian border. She is the daughter of j a railway signalman. She obtained j situations with forgivl testimonials in j fhvts occupied bv wealthy families, j gained their confidence, find wont oil | with everything she could lay bauds upon, especially jewellery and furs. j I lor real name is Marie Mitriuger. hut she appears in police records chiefly under the assumed name of Anna Mayor. She has a fascinating smile and a self-possessed manlier, and has acquired elegance and education far above her station. Her latest exploM a week ago, was so successful that what to Viennese minds appears the enormous reward oi tun million crowds (£33) was offered for her arrest. Hundreds of people have «iiven eroneous in lornuntioii to the police, denouncing two girls who bore no resemblance to the thief. One woman was so intoxicated by the lure of the reward that she declared her own daughter must be the missing girl and her stupid greed gave the police immense trouble. MAN CHASED FOR MILES. Mario was found living with a man named Weinstein .is his wife in furnished rooms. Their landlady’s young daughter suspected her identity, and will receive the reward. Detectives surrouiuld the house, and Marie opened the door. She calmly denied being anyone but Frau Weinstein, until identified bv the schoolboy son of one of her victims, whom the police had brought with them. Weinstein, a little fat, baldheaded Hungarian, aged 3.1 escaped through a window, and had to he chase for miles across country. He wept when caught. Numerous handsome new leather bags wore found in their rooms stuffed with stolen property. The choicest jewels were in matchboxes. The girl said that she left accidentally in a. tramway-ear the jewels ol her last haul. The booty stored in Marie’s dwelling filled two police motor-cars. She: persistently asserted that when she was in a situation in Vienna she made Weinstein believe urn a he was visiting

friends in Hungary, and that a week ago she made him meet her at a Vienna terminus, pretending that she had just arrived from Budapest. Her one desire was to shield him.