Amazing Adventures.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1922, Page 3

Amazing Adventures.

SYDNEY GIRL’S CAREER. SYDNEY. Nov. 8. An 1 S-year-:>!<I Sydney girl has had adventures during the past month that read like a chapter from a - sensational novelette. The girl, win. resides at Newtown has accomplished deeds in a week wlnc.i would make the .exploits of a movie star seem tame. All in a week she experienced her first love allair, was married, li- r husband was arrested, and her lastles can e tumbling about, her ears. A month ago a stranger drove up in a car, and stopped alongshl 1 where she wa. standing in the street. She (N:, not repulse his conversational advances, hut spoke lively to him. lb I(Rd her he was a Russian Pole, horn in Warsaw, describing himself as a pianist and composer. He induced he: to get into tb- car and driv,e round to his" Hut, where he would play to her. T| c loan continued love-making, informing her that he was shortly to con in for a large sum of money, lie said he would marry lo?r, anil take her to America. With a promise to meet him again, she went home that night. Acc riling to the police story, she visited an alleged spiritualist, where

s’.(. received the amazing information that she would shortly marry a wealthy man and acconumny him to Ani'Tien. She net the mail next afternoon, having said nothing to her parents. The following day she went to a place in Surrey Hills, where she "a, introduced to another man. The man. »itlv whom she was by this time infutiuiteil, told her lie-intended to marry l : r that afternoon, as he could wait no longer. She was induced to say she was an orphan from North Shields. England, anil to claim the second man

as her bro'hcr. The Registrar-General having refused to marry them without the requisite 21 hours’ notice, they returned next day and were married liv the Deputy Regis-trar-General. Following that day lbey lived at six different addresses in Surrey Hills "ithmi Hie space of a week, while the girl’s parents, who had become alarmed at her absence, were having the city

scoured. Some days later the mother was walking along Foveaux street. Surrey Hills, wlmn she saw her daughter in company with a man. As soon as they sighfed 1 or tlie man picked the girl it]) in his arms, bundled her into a car, and drove off'. The mother fainted. A warrant was taken out and defectives ini'll:' an arrest. The girl lias been returned to her parents. It is alleged by the police that the man is alreadv divorced, anil was horn in tills Slate nearly 40 years ago.