EXTRA ORDINARY ELOPEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1511, 11 March 1882, Page 2

EXTRA ORD IN AR Y ELOPEMENT.

A sensation was created in a special circle a few months ago by the elopement of Mr Forsyth Grant's wife with her brother's groom. Major Grant is attached to the Duke of Cornwall's regiment, which is stationed at Gibraltar, and it was during a visit to her brother, who lives near Traganth Fort, a place several miles west of the Cornish side of the river Tamar near Plymouth, that this fascinating wife became enamoured of the personal charms of her brother's groom, whose name is Henry Hearn. The two became intimate, and in a few clays eloped. A most vigorous search was made for the missing pair, but no trace of them was found in the country. Three weeks ago, Mr Eden, a laMyer from London, England, who was employed by Major Grant to recover his wife, if possible, arrived in Quebec, as he was of opinion that they had gone to Canada. The services of Detective Skeffington, of the Intercolonial Railway, were called into requisition, and m com; pany with Mr Eden, that officer went to Point Lewis and exhibited a photograph of Mrs Grant to a. number of wharf officials there. They immediately recognised it as being that of a lady who arrived by the steamer Circassian on the 10th of October last, in company with a young man. The pair were then traced to the St. James' Ho.tel, where the photograph "was again recognised. It has since been .ascertained that they took Pullman passage to Montreal, and thence to Toronto, >vhere, it is believed they are now living as.man and^wife under, the assumed name of Purches orNicholls. Ihe lady's private income is £5,000 a year, but she had only £30 in cash when she left England. Mrs, Grant, who is well acquainted with Canada," having been there on her wedding tour 5 years ago, < •is described'as follows ;—25; — 25 years bid', 5 feet -high, fair complexion,, gray eyes, fair hair cut short in front, wore a long cloak lihed-wrbh'fur ' ,and „'had on ,a* di& : mori'd .necklace 5 when" in, Quebec. She' !' lefli^two " children in 1 Eiiglahd. i Hearn, ! 'the groora, c is s,feet S .inches-high, , brown' 'HaitV, ha^eleyes afld small tfioustaclie, and

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