A TRAGIC ELOPEMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81914, 8 January 1907, Page 3

A TRAGIC ELOPEMENT.

—• — ROMANCE OF RUSSIAN" HIGH LIFE FLEEING FROM~AN INFURIATED HUSBAND. FUGITIVES ARRIVE IN MELBOURNE, j STILL DOGGED BY SPIES.

Received Btli, 12.43 a.m. Melbourne, January i. Captain Gabriel Essipfaff and Madame Onehakoff, who 'loped from St. Petersburg in May last, and have since been fleeing from the lady's infuriated husband, a distinguished Russian general, have arrived in Melbourne. . They are now in straitened circumstances. The details of their flight, until they reached England (via l'aris and New York), where all trace of them was supposed to be lost, has already been published. It appears from the lady's story to the Press that they eluded her husband's spies by motoring to Southampton, where they boarded the steamer Kenilworth Castle and sailed for the Cape. They had intended to jgo to Bombay. They then awaited the arrival of the iEaversham Grange, to proceed to NewZealand, but ultimately shipped on the Paparoa, and landed at Hobart. They assert they were spied on there, and came to Sydney, still with the spies on their track. They eventually crossed to Melbourne. Their immediate financial

necessities have been relieved by the receipt to-day of fifty pounds from the f lady's mother. The couple are both in delicate lealta.