AMAZING ADVENTURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

AMAZING ADVENTURE.

GIRL DRUGGED AND HER TEETH

PULLED OUT IN BERLIN. Berlin*, October 25.—A child of twelve, named Frida Wagner, has had a singular adventure, about which all Berlin is speculating. She was visited at school by a young lady who said site was an opera singer, named Von Sassen, and Frida's aunt. She told the lector of the school that she had not seen her niece for nine years, and wished to have a. talk with her. Frida was permitted to leave the school for three hours.

Together Frida and Fraulein von Sassen drove for a while through the streets, then went to a dentist's, where she was drugged, and two of her front teeth extracted. Von Sassen and the dentist wished to extract three more, but the child, who had come to her senses, grew alarmed and resisted. Von Sassen and Frida then walked about. Frida was shown beautiful articles,of female apparel in the shop windows, and was told that after a while she would wear such clothes and ride in a carriage. Von Sassen promised to train her as an opera singer, and praised the child's voice. Frida at this point took fright, and rushed to a passing tramcur, boarded it, and made the best of her way home. The police are investigating the story, but the* child's statements arc so far so confused and her nerves so shaken that it is impossible to get a really coherent narrative from her. They believe it is tome new development of perversity regarding which it might be well to have medical opinion. Von Sassen is evidently a false name, as no opera, singer with this name exists. The soi-disanfc von Sassen is a girl of about nineteen, quietly dressed, with a winning manner.,