Kidnapped in a Motor.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 158, 8 July 1904, Page 4

Kidnapped in a Motor.

AMERICAN LADY PENNILESS IN A FRENCH GAOL. An extraordinary adventure has befallen a \nung American lady who recently iirriskU in Paris. She is about twenty-five years of uge, pro-|i,...it-r.'Sing in appearance, and hails from vhe State of Georgia. She c.uue to Paris from London a few wwks ago in suanch of an engagement on the lyric stage. Shortly after her arrival she (net a wealthy gentleman whom she had known in London, and who after paying her attentions for several days made her a propr,»al of marriage. The younglady refused to entertain his suit, ami informed him that she intended to return to London. Itefore the date lixeil for hvr departure her admirer induced her to join him in an excursion to the country in his motor car. They mopped at a house in a village beyond Versailles, and when the young lady wished to leave wlie found who was a prisoner. Her room door was locked and all her appeals for release were unanswered. Vor three days she remained there under lock and key, but on the evening of the third day she escaped through the window and fled, as she thought, in tho direction of Paris. Her persecutor had taken everything of value from her,, but sihe had fortunately been able to conceal n|Uout her a certain amount of money, and this stood her in good stead. She was on the road for several days, putting up at wayside inns when night fell. Hut her resources gave out when she readied Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), ailtout twenty-live miles away from her original starting point, A stranger, penniless and hungry, she ap-

pealed to a passer-by, who took her to the Mayor. He in his turn referred her to tho authorities, who not knowing what to do with the young woman, gave her accommodation in the local gaol. In her distress Bhe then wrote to the American Consul-General in Faris. Mr Gowdy at once sent down one of his representatives to Dreux, and, the young American was at once set at liberty.

She returned with the consular representative to Paris, where she has been placed in a young women's institution until arrangements' can be made for her to be taken back to the United States,

A recent Invercargill visitor to Melbourne states that the labour market there i 9 in a very bad state, and that employment at extremely low wages is eagerly sought. He met a number of Southlanders who were victims of the prevailing depression in trade and intended to return to the colony when they were able to accumulate sufficient ' money to enable them to do so. lie (gives an instance of a young man, formerly of Invercargill, who made it a point of visiting the morning' newspaper offices befowi daylight to scan the "Wanted" columns, with a view to obtaining work, and who always found a host of others on a similar mission.—Southland News

A press message from Home given I he interesting information that l'ro'essor Honi, in the course of his excavations, on April J2th InsL discovered Hie chasm, in the centre of the r'orum, into which Marcus- Curtiiis' is supposed to have leaped in order lo save the city. The chasm was found covered with inscribed marble fluffs, on which were several votive offerings,, dating from B.C. 3(52 to the time of Augustus. This is supposed to ho the grandest discovery since the excavations of the Forum were lwgun live years ago. The surroundings were cleared for President I.ou'bet's inspection, and nt latest_ jjjivjttjs ~jiixJ.iajiaiWgis'ts Irb'm sH"pahs were flocking to the spot. The monument is formed of large (luailrangular blocks of the Imperial era. The opening is dosed by blocks of tufa, of archaic construction. The discovery is of Ihe utmost importance, as it completely refutes the denial by German historians of one of the greatest legends in Hoiiion history.