EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1039, 21 February 1882, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT.

A sensation was created in a social circle a few months a<jo by the elopement of Mr Forsyth Grant’s wife with her brother s groom. Major Grant is ■; attached, to the Duke of Cornwall’s J regiment, which is stationed at Gibral-1 far, and it was during a visit to her brother, who lives near Treganth Fort, a place several miles west of the | Cornish side of the River Tamar near | Plymouth, that his fascinating wife! became enamoured of the personal charms of her brother's groom, whose I name is Henry Hearn. The two be-; came very intimate, and in a few days eloped. A most vigorous search was made for the missing pair, but no trace of them was found in the country. Three weeks ago, Mr Eden, a lawyer from London, England, who was employed by Major Grant to recover his wife, if possible, arrived in Quebec, as he was of the opinion that they had come to Canada. The services of Detective Skellington, of the Intercolonial Railway, were called into requisition, and, in company with i Mr Eden, that officer went to Point ■ Lewis and exhibited a photograph of Mrs Grant to a number of wharf offi- 1 cials there. They immediately recognised it as being that of a lady who arrived by the steamer Circassian on the 10th of October last, in company with a young man. The pair were then traced to the St. James’s Hotel, where the photograph was again recognised. It has since been ascertained that they took Pullman passage to Montreal, and thence to Toronto, where it is believed they are now living as man fand wife under the assumed name of Parches or Nieolls. The lady’s private income is £5,000 a year, but she had only £3O in cash when she left England. Mrs Grant, who is well acquainted with Canada, having been here on her wedding tour 5 years ago, is described as follows: —25 years old, 5 feet high, fair complexion, gray eyes, fair hair cut short in front, wore a long cloak lined with fur and had on a diamond necklace when in Quebec. She left two little children in England. Hearn, the groom, is 5 feet 8 inches high, brown hair, hazel eyesand small moustache, and has a sprightly appearance.