REVENGE BY TELEPHONE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17857, 1 September 1923, Page 18

REVENGE BY TELEPHONE.

Revenge by telephone was the crime with which, a pretty typist, Feanfam Era a, was accused in a Berlin court recently. Her late employer, a stout Prussian business man, solemnly told a tale of what happened the day after he dismissed her. - At> a terribly oarly hour in the morning, when he was deeping, his housekeeper brought him a magnificent bouquet, to which was tied a card of an acquaintance, with the words, "Brightest good wishes." The poor man tried to go to steep again, but was disturbed by the arrival of an enormous basket of tnlips. Two minutes later a boy came with a number of bottles of liquor and two hams. Then the telephone bell rang, and at the other end was a girl, who bewildered the poor man by thanking him for roses and chocolates, which he was quite oertain he had never sert her. This surprise was followed by others. One acquaintance alter o.uother rang up and gushed their thanks for flowers, gloves, and champagne. After lunch tradesmen arrived with a gramophone, two cases of soda wsiter, and a canary in a cage. The stout Prussian business man rushed round to the shops to kr.osr what was happening, and in every cst» was told that the goods had been ordered in liia name by telephone. It did not take him long to establish the guilt of the pretty Fraulein Erna, who Knew who were his acquaintance# and who were his tradesmen. She confessed, and said she wanted to pay her employer out for dismissing her. The judge let her off with a small fine.