A NICE RELATIVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 15 April 1884, Page 3

A NICE RELATIVE.

An Odessa, .correspondent of a London paper writes ;■—i ;■■ A romantic;story is about to bo sifted before the criminal tribunal of this city. Duriiig the .Jewish' 1 exodus from Odessa and other cohtrgs of' South, Russia some two years ago, consequent , upon-oppression and maltreatment, a young married Jew emigrated to A merica. Ho left his young and handsome wife undor the guardianship: of a wealthy uncle, whom he also made the medium of his correspondence with his wife. .The emigrant's fortune in .America was at first somewhat ■chequered, but still ho-contrived to :

send homo at short intervals ten or

twenty roubles to his wife. Here the villanbus feature of tho story is, revealed. The rich uncle, upon whom tho inconsolalle wife was nowise dedependent save as a personal guardian, appropriated every rouble remitted through liim, Time sped, and the remittances increased, until the husband was enabled to send at once several thousand roubles in order that his wife should rejoin him in America. This large sum, like tho previously-received smaller ones, was duly misappropriated by the undo, who after a short period of silence,

now wrote to his nephew lamenting the sudden and severe illness and death of his niece, advising him to remain and re-marry in America, and enclosing a forged document in Hebrew, apparently duly signed and witnessed, attesting his wife's death, A similarly forged attestation of tho husband's deatlt, signed and witnessed

by two follow emigrants according to the Hebrew rite, was now Landed to the inconsolable young wife. After the lapse of a season of mourning she was brought by the machinations of the uncle to find consolation in an alliance with his protege, which was duly solemnised. A few days ago the denouement came about with the return to Odessa of the iirst husband. The undo has been arrested and will be tried immediately.