GERMANY: Frau Momms

Ever since last November detectives and secret service agents have haunted the official mansion of the Governor of the District of Potsdam striving to catch the famous "masked bandit" who every few nights snitched silver spoons, small statuettes, salable Bibelots. Last week the mystery was solved. In huge embarrassment Provincial Governor Wilhelm Momms resigned. The masked bandit was Frau Momms, the Governor's wife who had adopted this sly method of paying bills she did not show her husband.

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