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AUSTRIAN PEASANT WOMAN LONDON, March .1 A story from Vienna shows that there is something in old-fashioned peasant customs after all. Frau Maria Werb, tho widow of a Burgenland farmer, who always wears 12 skirts in winter, was on her way home from market when she was waylaid by a robber. She showed him an empty purse, whipped up her horse, and drove away, whereupon the man fired after her. When Frau Werb reached homo, she found a bullet in the folds of her 11th skirt. It had penetrated the 10 outside ones.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22673, 10 March 1937, Page 14
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