A HONEYMOON TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1921, Page 10

A HONEYMOON TRAGEDY.

DELAYED LETTERS AND ‘ STRANDED WIFE. Details are available (says the Sunday Chronicle) of‘ a pitiful drama which culminated in the death of a beautiful young Russian lady, Mme- Troitsk Ele,covitch. ’ Miss Elecovitch, who belonged to one of the -most notable and wealthy families in Southern Russia, had ’to flee from her native land when the Soviets were established in the Southern Provjpcea In Trieste she met M. Troitsk, a young Belgian business man, who eventually married her. The young married couple were spending the last fortnight of their honeymoon in Venice, at the very select and expensive Excelsior Hotel. One evening M. Troitsk received a telegram from his firm in Belgium urgently requiring his presence there in connection with business developments. Before leaving he gave his wife about 2000 lire, and it was arranged that as soon as he arrived in Brussels he would send her a telegraphic remittance, and return to her 4n four or five days. The days passed by, and Mme. Troitsk received no news from her husband. She had written daily, but a week after his departure there was no telegram, nor even a post card. Mme. Troitsk became rather nervous. She was living in a very expensive hotel, jjlnd she had hardly any money left, while her hotel bill had reached a figure far beyond what she could possibly raise. She wired and wired again to her husband asking for news, but after another two days she received a post card from her husband saying that he was ill, and could not return as soon as he wishedWorried about her husband, penniless, and unable to get to him, Troitsk was an easy prey to sudden impulses. Doubts formed themselves in her mind, and finally she considered herself abandoned by her husband. For a whole day she did not leave her room, and only late in the evening did she go out for a stroll. She was rescued from the waters of the Lido, where she had thrown herself after taking a heavy dose of veronal. Although she was taken immediately to a hospital, where she received every care, she succumbed next day to the effects of the poison. The cruelty of fate became apparent when, a few minutes after her death had been announced to the manager of the hotel over the telephone, a bunch of six registered letters addressed to her in the same handwriting reached the hotel, and hardly five minutes later a telegram, followed at intervals of a few seconds by two other telegrams, also reached for her. Next day the manager received a delayed telegram from M. Troitsk, asking for news about his wifq. The letters and telegrams were handed to the police, who found that they all came from her. husband, contained remittances of considerable sums of money, and anxiously asked for news from his wife. Letters and wires had been delayed in transmission.