ELOPEMENT BY THE CORINTHIC.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1177, 12 July 1911, Page 6

ELOPEMENT BY THE CORINTHIC.

FRUSTRATED AND HOW. There ivas a dramatic scene at Ply« mouth, when Ii.M.S. t'onuthic was about to leave for Wellington. It seems mat, at Kochuale,. Sarah Euzalietn ISmrclille, a. mill girl of about iweuiy, , was reported to iliu jioiico as missing, '■ aiut it was believed that a man engaged at the same factory had disappeared at i mo same lime.

On tliis trip at London the Corinthio had been iitted with "wirekss," aud, suspicion in tbo matter stated above having Ikcu aroused, communication was established whilst the vessel was at BCa between London and Plymouth.

The. inquiries made and the answers given resulted in the pair being located on board, and, at the last moment, the girl's father, who had hurried to Plymouth on receiving a. wire from the police, was taken on board, aud then, just as tho final whistle was Bounding, the missiDß girl was confronted, and after a somewhat painful sceno finally agreed to go back home. The man, said to bo married, and named Bridge, bade farewell to the girl, and, although sho was deeply distressed, he seemed unmoved at the, whole affair, and evidently intended to 'continue his voyage, but, Captain Mart ordered him' ashore, and there, perforce, ho had to

go. The officers stato that the unhappy K irl was astonished to sec Iho man again (in land, but consented to accompany her father home, and thus the episodo concluded as far as the ship's company was concerned. *