FALSE PRINCESS. BERLIN Jan. 7.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1927, Page 3

FALSE PRINCESS. BERLIN Jan. 7.

The City of Erfurt lias not only been fooled by a false prince but also by a false princess. Royal experience in the life of Emma Barth, a cook of 41. was less glorious than that of Harry Dromefi. who posed as a Tloheiizollera and was received with loyal honours in artistoeratie circles in Coburg. Emma Barth had been in the service of some- aristocratic families during the last 15 years, and was once in the service of a genuine Hohenzolleni at Potsdam. She thus got. some idea ot the way in which great ladies behave. Being tired of cooking, she arrived at Erfurt as Princess Margaret of Prussia. niece of the ex-Kaiser. She played the part very well »tnd got credit in the hotel and in the shops, while a wealthy man, who was fascinated by the idea of a roy'.il romance, was vanquished liv her somewhat mature charms. She talked sadlv of the reduced circumstances in which the poor dear K aiser and the rest cf the family found themselves. The- wealthy man gave her fine frocks in which she made a figure in the houses of a number of eminent and respectable families in Erfurt. Sonic busybody, Tiovucver. raised the suspicions of the police, and the. false Princess Margaret is now languishing ir. an Erfurt prison. The false prince is to he tried at Weimar. . It is announced that a film is to be made of ids ad vent ares.