ABDUCTION BY PERSIANS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1147, 11 September 1883, Page 3

ABDUCTION BY PERSIANS.

An outrage has been committed at Baku which bids fair to become the subject of lively diplomatic correspondence between Russia and Persia. In the month of January last the wife of a Finnish captain in the employ of Nortel, the great petroleum firm, went to visit some friends living in the outskirts of the town. As she had not returned home by midnight her husband started out to escort her home, but found on reaching the friends house that his wife had left some two hours previously. On the following morning the husband, having vainly searched all night for his missing wife, gave notice to the police, and every means were used to discover what had become of the poor woman so mysteriously spirited away- Two months passed and no traco of the missing woman was dis- ' covered to the sorrow of the husband,

who spent the whole of his lime in instituting inquiries in the hope of at last finding his wife. Quite recently, however, by some chance the mystery was discovered and the woman traced. It would appear that as the womnn was passing through a lonely part of the road home she was suddenly seized by four men, who threw a shawl over her head and carried her off, as she afterwards dirfcovered, to a Persian craft lying at anchor in the harbor. Her captors, who were Persians, at once set sail for the Persian shore, and the woman was carried off to Teheran, were she was lodged, it is said, id a royal and where it is supposed she still remains. It is stated that this case of abduction has formed the subject of a strong representation on the part of the Russian Minister at Teheran, and the immediate surrender of the woman, who is of course a Russian subject, has been demanded. The woman, who is a Swede by birth, possesses considerable personal attractions, which no doubt were the cause of her abduction by the agents of the Shfcb. The whole matter has hitherto been kept quiet; but it must in a short time become the subject of discussion both in Russian society and the Press, the more so that the relations between the Government of the Shah and that of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia have not been marked for some time past by any extreme cordiality.