EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 September 1901, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT

A Wellington Husband Duped. Wellington, September 18.

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of two recent residents of Wellington City under very extraordinary circumstances.

The prosecutor in the case has made a statement to the police that a short time back he was induced to make over a considerable amount of landed property to bis wife. An old lady, who was in the habit of drawing a considerable sum from the Public Trustee as an annuity, resided witli the prosecutor and bis wife in Wellington. Having succeeded in securing the deeds from her .husband the wife is alleged to have induced the boarder to band over her interest in the estates from which her revenue was deprived to her (prosecutor’s wife) on the shadowy pretext that efforts would bo made to induce the Lord Mayor of London to secure the old lady a considerable amount of property in Auckland. In the meantime the prosecutor’s wife seems to have conceived an affinity for a wharf labourer, and to have dallied with the latter on the terms of closest intimacy. The story is that the woman kept this gentleman liberally supplied with pocket money, which lie has pleasantly occupied himself with spending on a lavish scale during the past few weeks. The final upshot of the whole matter was that the prosecutor, returning to his place of residence one evening, found it a home no longer, advantage having been taken of his absence not only to remove the household goods, but the whole of his personal effects as well.

Warrants for the arrest on charges of theft of two of the parties, have been telegraphed to Auckland, whither they are said to have hastened.