YOUNG LADY’S ORDEAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8944, 9 October 1907, Page 1

YOUNG LADY’S ORDEAL.

Through pursuing a lover Paula Klipenburg, a beautiful young Viennese, has undergone a te Her 1 story k is was wooed and won V Horace E. Miller a Newark millionaire, during ins fie quant visits to Europe. By accident she discovered that he was a mairiedmau, and she then hurried to America in the hope o± at least obtaining conipenstiou. Miss Klipenburg stayed at one of the best hotels in New York, and was engaged in consultation with her lawyer when she was hailed back to Ellis Island (the quarantine station), where lor a week she has been immured pending deportation as an “undesirable alien ” Commissioner Watohorn. the “Tsar ot Ellis Island >' as the newspapers have dubbed him, refused_ absolutely to allow her to confer with her Eawyoi. Mr Merril, whom ho ordered off Ellis Island. For a week she was confined with a herd ot filthy Polish and Italian immigrants of the lowest class. The imnugration officials refused even to obtain a supply of clean clothing from her hotel, and her costly jewellery was attached to an unwashed blouse. According to her lawyer, this treatment was due to representations made bv the man whom she is suing. m Asa histrosource, Mr Merril journeyed to Washington, where he. laid the facts before the Department of Labour and Commerce, with the result that peremptory orders were issued to release the girl on a bond of £3OO. . , , Miss Klipenburg lias received during her incarceration numerous offers, of marriage from unknown sympathisers.