A DISAPPEARANCE SOLVED.
The mystery of tile whereabouts of Miss Lapoukhine, the Russian girl, who ; disappeared, after a visit to tho Aldwych Thoatro, on Thursday evening last week, was solved yesterday morning by the young lady herself; in a word, sho returned of her own volition to r AVoburn Place. The only mystery that remains is as to her place of hiding during the past week, and her reason for writing the letter, in which sho declared that she had been forcibly kidnapped : and confined in a cellar, where sho intended to commit suicide. It is certain that sho was neither "kidnapped" nor "abducted." Her father was • present at Woburn Place to receive her on her arrival, and to him sho made her explanations. ' "I was not happy,"-said .Miss Lapo'ikliino to ono of our representatives yesterday afternoon, "and so I left. I am with my father now, and do not wish to leave him." Miss Lapoukhine declined to state her movements from Thursday night until tho time when sho returned to Woburn Place. M. Lapoukhine added:—"My daughter did what sho thought best, aiid I liavo no fault to iind with her action, I am sorry, that so much publicity has been given to tho matter, but,'after all"—with a shrug of tho shoulders—"what can you' expect when the nowspapers get to know, of it." M. Lapoukhine and- Ins daughter; left Charing Cross Station by tho 2.20 p.ni. train for the Continent. Miss Russell, tho governess, left Woburn Place in tho morning, and enquirers there wore refused her address. Her removing was attributed to tho publicity which has beon given to the case. Sho left her luggage and that of Miss Lapoukhine behind. M. Lapoukhine, on his arrival in London yesterday morning, wont to tho house, and shortly after mid-day the missing girl appeared.
Another historic London tavern, Barnard's Inn, in I-lolborn, will close its doors. Tho house was the Red Lamp of "Uarnaby Rudge,"' and many men whose names aro now historic liavo foregathered in the old parlour boliiud the bar, '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 75, 21 December 1907, Page 10
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