SMUGGLER QUEEN CAUGHT.
GENEVA, June 30.— Frau Bella Hartmaim, tli© young and pretty war widwv of aim Austrian 'officer who robbed the former and present Governments of Vieuna. and Berlin of enormous sums, ste ted to amount, to £630,000, was pen» tenci'd vesterda-v at Lindau, Bavaria, to pay a fine of £2500 and' to one month's imprisonment. She offered to pay a leu-fold line if the sentence of ' imprisonment was -remitted., but ■ the. . offer- was refused. Prau Hartmann wa.i given tjie jiamo of- "Queen of the- Smugglers," owing to 7ior clever an^ ' complex, svs- 1 tem. She employed a small army of | people round l^ake Constance-, and was r a'hvay.s joynl to them, paying their fines, :inionn{viig in thousands of 'pounds, when her employees, of both eexos, .vcre arrcslcd. Tlie widow possesses three villas in' tlio Tyrol 'and two- on Lake Constance, full of beautiful /furniture, mostly smuggled, >fiix motor-c^ra. three- j motor-l>oats, ifrwi 1 -a. splendid colleclion of .Hapjshurg jewels, chiefly bought since" the armistice, at a- low price, liev; former .employees, wlwv are dbvoted to her*' iiie indignant at her sentence of impa^isonment, and .she has been- taken to Munich, as an. attempt xat 'rescuo is feared. . . . •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15316, 11 September 1920, Page 5
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199SMUGGLER QUEEN CAUGHT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15316, 11 September 1920, Page 5
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