The Adelaide Tragedy

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 6, 14 July 1891, Page 4

The Adelaide Tragedy

Xj? connection with the elopement -aedrts terribly tragic ending, published, in our telegraph columns on Saturday, the Adelaide correspondent of the Dunedin .Star, writing on Juuo 30, Bays':— A scandal which has come to light is juat now the talk of Arle laide. Some 'time ago a young hjru ' named Laurence M. Davidson was : introduced to a number of good rfahiilies, : principally connected with th^ church which ha had joined, and i<vf which he had showed himself a :i * ZBalouß;%eniber. Among them was 5 the family of XMr G. H. Ayliiie, who '•? -has 4 or " many years held a good ' "ander the Government. -Dayidabn was a handsome fellow, ;! ""vpith pleasing manners, and he made particularly to Mr .Ayiiffe's- two:, daughters, -both of whom were under. 20. He soon proposed* t<»'- the elder girl and married •»-lier, although; her . parents were much opposed to the match, as he had no fixed uaeans of subsistence, and merely, earned something now and then as a canvasser for several pub-lishing.offices,•-He spoke in an airy ■way, however, about his expectations from au uncle at Home, and induced the girl to become his wife. They - set up house, and for some time 3'lived withji dash which astonished their acqi/aintanees who^ could only surmise that the unknown uncle must have rldue something handsome. Davidson ! ' still, continued a frequent visitor at his father-in-law's house, and was very fond of playing lawn tennis with the younger sister. A few days, ago b.oth ..were missing, and the parents-were horror-stricken, and the young lyife heartbroken, to learn that Davidson eloped with his little sister-in-law, by the German lioev HohenzoUem. It has further transpired that -he, has Seen raising money of late by means of ya,lueleßS cheques, of which: he is said to have succeeded in passing^^'^, number.. on credulous tradespeople. The German steamers do not touch . at Australia, - so thut He> could only be brought back from Colombo, and it is said the victims do not feel inclined to bear the heayyijcost of this,- even it be legally possible to arreat him there. 'The unhappy .girl who fled with Ik. him just turned 18, so that Dayid-t-son cauuo!t M; be charged with abduc-

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