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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1923, Page 7

Few men have packed so much into 24 hours as has “Count” von Hohenau (says the “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent). At eight o clock on Tuesday evening he took a furnished tlat. At nine o’clock he tell in love with a girl in the next fiat. At ten o’clock they were engaged to be mairied. The next day there wqi/p festivities, including a wonderful dinner from a restaurant, and oceans of champagne. At six o’clock in the evening the police arrived, at seven o’clock “Count” von Hohenau confessed that he was really a locksmith named Rausch. At eight o’clock the engagement was broken off and the ex-fiance left, lor prison. He had stolen a motor-car, sold it for 200,000.000 marks (about £150). and had determined to enjoy one day of his life as an aristocrat.