ROBBING TOURISTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13335, 25 March 1911, Page 5

ROBBING TOURISTS.

MEMBERS OF A GANG SENTENCED. Frees Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright.. Received March 25, 10.35 a.m. BEENE, March 24. Elisa Baumgartner was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at Geneva on a charge of robbing hotel visitors. She was a member of an international gang whose depredations totalled £120,000, this amount being the proceeds of nearly a hundred robberies in Switzerland, Austria, and the Riviera. Hornsohuh, the head of the gang, and Elisa’s lover, climbed waterspouts and lowered the booty to her. He was tried at Bozen and sentenced to 7£ years’ imprisonment.