FUGITIVES FROM A HUSBAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8700, 8 January 1907, Page 2

FUGITIVES FROM A HUSBAND.

A Long Flight. Press Association-—Copyright. Melbourne, January 7, Captain Gabriel Essipfolf • and Madame Onchakoff, who ejoped from Bt. Petersburg in May last and have since been fleeing from the lady’s infuriated husband, have arrived at Melbourne. They are now in straitened circumstances.

The details of their flight until they reached England, where their traces were supposed to have been lost, have already been published It appears from the lady’s story to the press that they eluded spies by motoring to Southhampton where they boarded the Kenilworth Castle and sailed for the Cape. They had intended to go to Bombay, and there await the arrival of the Haversham Grange to proceed to New Zealand, Ultimately they shipped on the Paparoa and landed at Hobart. They assert that they were spied on there. They came on to Sydney ape] still spies were on their track and eventually they crossed to Melbourne. Their immediate financial necessities were relieved by the receipt today of fifty pounds from the lady’s mother. The couple are both in delicate health. Confidences From the Lady. January 8. Madame Onohakoff states that she is entitled to £50,000 on the death of her mother, but that she is prepared to relinquish all right to that providing her people can arrange a divorce and allow her a small annuity sufficient for the Captain and herself to live in Switzerland “when we marry.” She goes on to say ; “ The Captgin is ill. He can do nothing. He is a soldier and cannot speak or understand English, but I cannot leave him. I must stick to the man who has lost everything through me. Ho is sick. He is accustomed to a good life and wants many comforts that cannot bo provided for him owing to our want of money. We do not know what to do, and have even spoken of suicide. I cannot go home, the Captain’s small fortune hgs gone and his service is at an end. He is a deserter and has ruined himself for me,”