STRANGE HONEYMOON

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1929, Page 7

STRANGE HONEYMOON

GERMAN COUPLE’S ADVENTURES Honeymoon touring in six stolen motor-car a is tho way in which Herr and Fran 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. tho

occasion. They went for a drive, slept in the open, and sold the spare wheel, tho electric starter, and anything else they 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 parts 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. . . Th ticket inspector demanded money.

and West left his wife as hostage while he went and got the money. Selecting vet another car, he drove off. Once out ’of the city he stripped it of all its accessories and sold them to a secondhand 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. - • , .