POLICE STOP COUNTESS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 2

POLICE STOP COUNTESS

A PRINCE’S WINES

r . BERLIN, August 20. The Countess Klinekowstrom, whose name recently added to the distinction of tlie visitors’ list at Bad Lister, was walking down Ujitgr den Linden this morning in her most distinguished way when a member of the criminal police came up to her and said, “Hullo Maria/ here you are again!” He intimated that she must accompany him to the police station.

She protested with great dignity that the man had evidently mistaken her for somebody else, but was taken to Alexander Place —Berlin’s Scotland Yard-—where she was given a warm welcome as an old friend known to the police—Marie Dalenzikovvshi, daughter of a Stettin tailor. Instances of her wonderful talent for living on nothing a year were recalled. There was a tale of the late Prince Joachim of Prussia’s cellar of choice wines which she could easily secure for a widow in the wine trade by a word to “her dear friend” the Princess. The widow gave her a sum of money to carry out the deal, but never again did she hear of that distinguished countess and the royal wines. There was also a budget of tales of ex.pliots among the fashionable guests of Bad Ulster and more recent tales of an elegant life in Berlin at other people’s expense. , , .

£25 IN A CEMETERY. One of these other people was a woman engiueeer avlio met Maria in a cemetery and found her so sympathetic that she lent, her £25 just to tide over the time before she got a big sum which a relative in England had left her.

More excusable, perhaps, was Marie’s effort to borrow £8 from the porter ol a Berlin hotel before disappearing without paying the bill, for she doubtless knew that £8 is no more to the porter of a smart hotel than 8d is to most people,

. Although she listened to the police recital with disdain and refused to renounce the title, Marie’s walks in the Uliter den Linden will cease for some time.