A ROMANCE OF CRIME.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2388, 29 October 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROMANCE OF CRIME.

j h'>li many years no cumuir*! case lias • created ><• much i 1 mi at Vienna as the fraud committed !»y a official ’ mimed Z At the end of Mar he di-apj-etrcd from his p-t, after having ab-ti acted btler-containing o\«_-r I ■•*).(/.*>} ibnn-. Hi- (portrait was >*-nt to everv Capital, and the i>-iice believed that he had .-mo- i.*.u*h«-d he eastern -h»re> ..f the Atlantic. A -hori nine ajfo it was n *t left Vinn.i. ami had U-**n living there in safe concealment until h-t Thursday week. At th- 1 Mi~ Jenny Nathan-ui t*•**lr an apartment in the wv-tern ‘•uburh of Vienna, and arni*ed Mi-pican by leading what appeared to he a strangely solitary life, and by chaining a thousand florin note. A watchman opp;»-ite had long expre-.-ed surpii-e that though die never received anv visitors he c-mld x*“ a man walking up and down in her room, whose melancholy brooding >he seldom interrupted by addiv—ing him. Thb nnn was IMiileiimn Zdow-ki, and it lias now l*-en ascertained that he ewr walked out dre-d as a woman, and was thn- able t*. -j**ak to liis relation-* in the open street without his identity being On the 13th he left the apartment with Mb* Nathan«*»n lathe Western Haihvay for Havre, with a womans pi—p..r? provided by hb brother in that town. He sent Mbs Nathan-oii home with the im—port, and, dieted a > a. man, t»»ok passage on board the Champagne for the I nited State. He had prevnm-ly altered Mbs Xathaii-on‘s pas-.j«»rt to -uit hb sex. i)n th- 10th h- left Havre as John Xathanson. Two days later a servant, the sweetheart oi Z.tlewskVs brother, to t!ie jKtlice that he had taken her pas-port from her, and she feared it was for -me fraudulent use. Zalevv-kis brother, wb < b in the army, was th‘-n arr**-bd. and Mi-s Natlmnson. wh» had meantime return'd, shared his f:i*e, and c-me-s'd where Zalewski w.v to be p.und. A telegraphic in**—age to \. u \ .<rk arrived before the >hip readied her destination, and when tin* Champagne I’Viched port ve-terdav afteriiooh. at d oebek, Zdew-ki was arre-t-d, and was found to ha*e fl »rin> -till about him ; florins were found up ui his brother. Daily News.