West Berlin Woman Goes East via Ladder
A West Berlin woman Friday used a ladder to scale the Berlin Wall into East Berlin where Communist border guards detained her, police said.
West Berlin police said they spotted the woman, whom they described as “apparently intoxicated,” climbing up a ladder braced against the wall at about 4 a.m. in the southern part of the city.
East Berlin border guards immediately took the woman into custody and escorted her away, police said.
At about the same time, a 64-year-old West Berlin woman called a local police station to report her 28-year-old daughter had disappeared from home carrying a ladder, officials said.
Police said the description of the daughter matched that of the woman spotted climbing over the wall.
West Berlin police declined to release the identities of the women.
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