HUNTED RUSSIAN LOVERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 26 March 1907, Page 4

HUNTED RUSSIAN LOVERS.

itadame Oucbakoff writes as follpws to the Melbourne Herald : It was with grief and indignation that I read the article, reprinted from the Daily Mirror, in your journal yesterday. Will you allow ine to make a brief reply'{ 1. Ihtro Would have been no "notoriety altacned to the whole ocurrance had net General Ouclukfoff requested its to be arrested in New York, till he arrived "to kill Captain Essipoff a.nd take back his wife. 1 These words were repeated to me by the American immigration oflicer and by our General Consul in Now York Mr Lodijensky. 2. My father having died a year ago, ho left his whols fortune to my mother' who lefused the inheritance, and gave it over to !.',e, having a great fortune of her own. I may honestly state that I "relinquished" this fortune by departing with U-iptam Essipoflf without having passed through the necossary formalities to receive it.

3. We cannot return tio Europe before I get a divorce and marry Mr Essipoff, for my position there would be worse than in this far-away country. Then I am sure that in Australia no doctor or magistrate could be corrupted to deliver a, certificate about my being insane, while in Europe I would hardly be safe. 4. We liave cabled and written many times to London requesting Captain Essipoff's money to be forwarded to Port Adelaide first, then to Melbourne-, but haw never received an answer to our request from Mr 8., who is in charge of it. 5. It is untrue that I have been under medical treatment for my nerves, and onlv shows how easily Russian doctors will do anything fpr money. Dr Rosen lias, not prescribed for ihr once, being simply a business man of my husband's, whom ho helped in arranging a sanatorium in lvuc land.

6. I willingly believe in General Onchakoff's "compassion" and kindness, in which he has nver failed to wards me but I do not see how ho can wish me to retirn "for the children's soke." Evcrv reasonable man must see that there is no return for me after a years absence from hoire in such .scandalous conditions. I think it would be in my famalys interests to give me a divorce, ask the captain to marry me, and leave us to live as far as possible from pcoplo who knew me once as Miss Toviashoff or Mrs Ouchakoff. CAPTAIN ESSIPOFFB VERSION. Captain Essipcff also writes denying that he is and invalid. Ho says; "I was perfectly well when I left Russia, and dur ing my twelve years' service was never considered an invalid. I did not ; run away,' but profited by a leave of absence granted to me by n.v chief, and authorising my stay abroad. l ? rom Berlin I sent in my demission, to which I was entitled by the twelve years' service; but this request was never granted, owing to General Ouehakotfs interfeivnce. When leav ing Russia with Mme< Ouchakoff, I hojwd