An Amusing Atlantic Elopement.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 288, 6 December 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

An Amusing Atlantic Elopement.

Still another adventure must bo accredited to the Atlantic, and a victor v to one of her greyhounds. Some week a ago a man and wife, with thoir infant child, eniled from Liverpool for New Vorl-, an<l tlie.i-« lived in apartments for aoir.a lifcfcla time. .A I; tho ond of a not very lengtlionoil period, however, the husband emSeavoQ.' prl to eivo hif< wife tho slip, &ud after m.me •viiiij; r,o thufc end for a day or two hoefibfltC'J'liiH purpoHu. Tho desortod wifo, Ijowovnr, ip&de eearch, aiid found her fsrriii'i epouto had tnlson passage by the Gulon af«<"ner Wyomiiii?, wiiich left Now York on Tuesday Ins', week, and had left her and her child bohiml. Not , did this sum up th« error of lti& ways, for ho was accompanied by somo woman of whom the wife got to hear. There w.'ts no sfcenrner leaving N'.:w York till the following day, but tho determined woman disposed of what portables sbo could spare, took paeeage by the Majestic, and landed in Liverpool on Wednesday. Tho Wyoming , being an older and slower boat, did nor. reach the Bar till laeb night, when the tujj Spindrift went oil' to hieeo her, and on board the tender was tho plucky wife. When the tug , draw up alongside" tho Wyoming the fugitives were {/reatly sitrprised to discover that they were found, and had lost the race in which, all unconsciously, they had been competitors. There was no disturbance of any kind, but tho i»ucce«si«l pursuer, who is a tall muscularlooking woman, mnrched her partner aboard the tug, and then learned fcbao his partner was accompanied by her mother. On arrivine at the landing-stage tho wife first descended the gangway, calling to he; husband, 'C'omo on, and bring hor motlior.' Then was oeon the novel spectacle of tho three women and tho apparently disappointed nsan marching peacefully up town to loiigrsnjjH secured by the courugooua and strong-wilied woman, who had so ingeniously taken her opportunity and ovnrtulion her spouao. —3'lomo Paper.