A STRANGE HONEYMOON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 11

A STRANGE HONEYMOON.

Honeymoon touring in six stolen motoi cars is the way m 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 „hey 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 parta 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. Tljg ticket inspector demanded monev and West loft his wife as hostage while he went and got the money. Selecting J’|t 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 West 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.