A BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURESS.
.VIENNA, December 21)
Ilyfka Offenbach, a Russian adventuress- of extraordinary beauty and daring, lias just been sentenced to three and a-lialf years in prison here for blinding her former lover, Rubin Stamovicz, the son of a wealthy merchant of Lorz, Poland.
Ryfka ran away with Rubin, who iiad stolen a large sum from his father. When the money was gone,Rubin deserted her, and she blinded him with sulphuric acid. She was scut to Siberia on a life sentence, but by making love to a whole series ol officials she escaped, and after extraordinary adventures reached Carlsbad, where she set up as a reigning beauty. The Russian police discovered her, and, in order to escape them, she suddenly married an old beggar at Lemberg, thus becoming an Austrian subject. She left the beggar immediately after marriage and resumed her career in Carlsbad, but Rubin’s brother got her arrested, and she has been sentenced to prison in Austria. Among her admirers-, it is now said, were an arch-duke and two German princes, who made every exertion to get her free. A Hungarian nobleman of great wealth, dazzled by her beauty, has written here that she can go to him when released and lie will marry, her. Fie calls her not only the most beautiful creature living,but a heroine.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 809, 26 January 1903, Page 3
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219A BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURESS. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 809, 26 January 1903, Page 3
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