OWN HOUSE ROBBED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 16

OWN HOUSE ROBBED.

GERMAN OFFICIAL’S WIFE. CONFESSION TO POLIOS. A strange mystery, which has long been one of the chief topics of Potsdam society, has found a sudden and astonish' jng denouement. Frau Momm, wife of tho Chief Prefect of Potsdam—a aubwith a population of nearly ljO00,000“-haB admitted responsibility for a senes. of thefts committed in the Government House, her hsuhand’s residence, and the seat of his official activities. Herr Momm, who is regarded as an exemplary Prussian official, was formerly Prefect of Wiesbaden, hut was expelled from occupied territory by the French, and was given the Potsdam post in 1024 as compensation. • after he tad installed himself in the Government House petty pilfering began there. It was part of his duties SirpTf PjS olo * banquets, attended by from 300 to 400 persons, and after these festiTaiil" B«, p A tc ? onl d never b e made to +l*L Tw, th £ raventonea. Gradually tnese thefts became more serious, and considerable sums of money disappeared from rooms to which outsiders had no access. The myatery came to a head recently * hat ?»n Momm’s bedroom had been broken into at night ~a ^e, Was sleeping in it. and a quantity of valuable jewellery etolen it was difficult to account. i?he door of thfn 'haJ l >, Was m the inside, but tins had been surmounted by boring 30 ho!es in a panel and so cutting a Vie throng which a hand could be passed. • , w ? s ’ however, shown that a profesBional burglar could have pushed out the and , picked the locV with mnch greater celerity and much leas noise than ? ou^abou t method must have involved. Moreover, the room could have doom neither b / othe , r “ccessible ° j *t £ " wl i lch was locked at all These and other circumstances gave rise to the conviction that the iunnosfd "burglary" was a make-believe an<f SS nat TT rd J ly fi *? d on Frau eoon”h‘r<dre U a der poll , ce examination she wholeserie/^V* 1 a l dm , it ? ed that the , of thefts had been carried fit* ber knowledge and for her bene- , ? er , acc °rophce, a young ’ man who a tts