ELOPEMENT BY AIR.
GIRL'S 250-MILE FLIGHT FROM PARENTS. i '' •'; PARIS, July 22.V An elopement by aeroplane, which has yet some features' of an old-time elopement, isreported from.Niort r in the department of Deux Sevres. Two months ago a good-looking young airman was giving some exhibition flights at a meeting at Kiort Deux. • A prepossessing governess fell in toye with hfm. and begged him to take her up in hia aeroplanei ' -A few days later the airman eloped with her in his machine, and did not descend until they had reached Issy, near Paris, about 250 miles away. The girl's father has now lodged a complaint against the airman, whonv lle'accu^s,of abducting his daughter and detaining her against her will. The governess, when she appeared,before the police commissary, said she eloped with the airman of her own free will, and declared ihat she would be eternally grateful to him for flying away with her. „ She added that as she was of age she was free to do as she pleased. The father's complaint was dismissed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 2
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174ELOPEMENT BY AIR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 2
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