PRIMA DONNA ROBBED.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9083, 7 May 1908, Page 3

PRIMA DONNA ROBBED.

INGENIOUS COOP IN ITALY. A famous Italian prima donna has just been robbed of £6,000 in money . and jewels. Signorinu Panfcelaoni by i nama, she recently received as visi- , tors at her villa near Pallanka four . elegantly draased strangers. They .•had letters of introduction, describing them as representatives of Mr Oj-'ar HammaMtein. the New York manager, and stated that they had comj to offer unprofitable engagement, t) tli3 famous singer. After dinner! there was a little music, the prima' i donna singing to the accompaniment of the musician of the party and taking part in a duot with another of .them. But during the singing two of the American's left the room, jj'ollowing them the aignorina found ®Tne lying ill upon a sofa, his friend caring for him. The kindly singer volunteered to drive the sick msyi and his friends in her own car to the station at Pallanza. where the party took train to Milan. It was not until tier return that she discovered that the indisposition ot the American istranger had not kept him from for-, cing the safe in her bedroom and taking all that it contained. The Jetters of introduction are forgeries, and the American pirty iu3 not yet .been captured.