A POLICEMAN FLIRTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

A POLICEMAN FLIRTS

AMOURS WITH A COUNTESS. Captain Hester, of the Prussian police, is to be taught by a disciplinary court the exact, rules which a police ofticer must observe in conducting a flirtation with a beautiful countess. The charming person with whom he ll;rtca, the Counte.-s von Bothmcr, lodged no objection : gainst his conduct. The persons who ar e vaguely described as “ihe disciplinary authorities’’ hold. howCACr, that his conduct was unsuitable for an officer of polThc result of their investigation is embodied in a document of 20 typewritten pages, which constitutes the indictment against him. The worst charges against him are: He often walked in the streets of Potsdam with the countess without her husband; His telephone conversations with the conntes were, according to the evidence of a policeman, of the most shameless kind,, which is clearly shown by the fact that hi* called her “darling” and “dear child.” At a police ball at which a number of the wives of police officers were present .he so far forgot himself as to dance with a milliner. Captain Hester declared that his conduct has always been correct.