MILLIONAIRE MISER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 372, 14 March 1932, Page 5

MILLIONAIRE MISER.

“No More for Me,” says Former Servant Girl. NEVER ALLOWED LIBERTY. (Special to the •• Star.") LONDON, February 2. “No more millionaires for me,” said 1 rude Rudow, a servant girl aged nineteen, when she had described to the Judge of the Labour Court in Berlin her extraordinary experiences in the household of a wealthy manufacturer. “ When I arrived at his mansion,” she said, “ I was delighted that I had a room to myself and my own bathroom, and was treated like a real lady. Ihe food, too, was splendid, and there was as much as I could eat.” What surprised her, however, was that wherever she went about the house she was followed either by her mistress or by a footman. “ I could not even dust a room,” she sa id’ “ without having somebody to look She was still more astonished, when her first “ evening out ” came round, to find that her mistress expected to go with her. “ She was most kind,” Trude told the Judge, “and took me out in her RollsRoyce, gave me coffee in a fashionable cafe, and the choice of going to a theatre or a cinema.” “ Something Uncanny.” But when Trude found that she could never go out unaccompanied, she felt that, despite this hospitality, there was something uncanny about the place. It was a long time before she discovered that her employer was in the habit of hoarding large sums of money in the house, and lived in constant fear that he might be robbed. “ He used to sit up all night counting his money," said Trude, " and then I understood that I was never allowed out alone lest I should tell people about his wealth.” The last straw was the discovery that letter from her parents had been kept from her. So Trude ran away, sued her employer for depriving her of her liberty, and demanded a month’s wages. The miser failed to appear, and toe Judge decided that he would have to pay. “ I would rather work for the poorest people.” said Trude.