A POLISH GIRL'S ADVENTURE IN PARIS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2739, 1 February 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)

A POLISH GIRL'S ADVENTURE IN PARIS.

The Warsaw papers report an extraordinary adveuturo which has befallen the daughter of a rich landowner at Wolhynien, A mouth ago the yourjf? lady was Bent by her paronts, accompanied by her French governess, a Parisienue by birth, to the exhibition iu Paris. Upon their arrival tho governess, ingtoad of proceeding to the hotel whore she had been directed to stay with her charge, drove straight to the house of some relations in one of the worst quarters of the city. The entire family lived huddled together iu three dirty rooms in the basement. In this miserable dwelling Mdlle. L. was detained and informed that she would not be set at liberty till she bad promised to marry the brother of tho governess, a hulking young man of the ottvrkv class, who earned his living half by working at, odd job 3 aud half by thieving. The unfortunate girl had no means of escape, but one day when left alone a few minutes, she wrote a letter to her parents, which she addressed and stamped and threw from the window to the street, where it was fortunately picked up by an honest passerby who, thinkii.g"'somebody had dropped it accidentally, put it iuto n pillar-box. The letter arrived safely at Wolhynien, and the young lady's father, who was already alarmed at having no news of his daughter's arrival in Paris, started immediately for that city. He at once proceeded, accompaiued by a policeman, to the address his daughter had given. The governess aud her brother were arrested, and the young lady and her father afterwards returned to Warsaw.