A STRANGE HONEYMOON

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 27

A STRANGE HONEYMOON

Honeymoon touring in six stolen motorcars is the way in which Herr and Frau West started married life in Germany. Their purse was empty, but Herr West had ambitions and a -plan. ‘The couple strolled along the street until they saw a car worthy of the occasion. They went for a drive, slept in the open, and sold the spare wheel, the electric starter, and anything else they could detach from the car to pay for food and drink. When the car became rather too shorn they returned to Berlin. Six cars disappeared from the streets of the capital, and parts of them are now scattered over Germany. The couple s last journey came to an end in Hanover. The sixth car had been left derelict, and the pair travelled back with two platform tickets. The ticket inspector demanded money, and West left his wife as hostage while he went and got the money. Selecting yet another car, he drove off. Once out of the city he stripped it of all its accessories and sold them to a second-hand dealer. Then West returned and redeemed Frau West. Triumphantly the pair emerged from the station, and for the second time that day WesJ took a car. This time they only got as far as Falkensee, ’ where a man they had swindled, recognised them and handed them over to the police.