£3000 FOR WOMAN'S DIARY.

Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 5

£3OOO FOR WOMAN'S DIARY.

Baron Stralendurff, who was arrested in March on a ell Age of blackmail, was lately at Vienna* .sentenced to one year's severe imprisonment'with loss ol his title.

The baron came to Vienna this winter and took a room in the same, hotel as tlio immensely rich Countess Vera Kstcrha/.y. Ke learnt from, her maid that she had a carefully-locked 1 diary containing certain 1 set rets. The baron bored a hole through a wall of his .room just the countess', apartments and managed to obtain access to* ilicr rooms and'earry off the largo diary.

. Then he began negotiations with the 'countess for its return, demanding ■C3IKSO for it. The countess' lawyer laid a trap for the baron, and had bin eon-, versation when negotiating for the return of tho diary taken down in shorthand. This led to 'his conviction.