A STRANGE STORY,

Dunstan Times, Issue 918, 21 November 1879, Page 3

A STRANGE STORY,

Four years ago a tailor married the daughter of an artillery colonel, and lived happily with her for a twelvemonth at the end of which period he went for a few days to Belgium on business. On his return liis wife was nowhere to he found ; hut a mouth later the tailor and his friends recognise,! her (as they imagined) in the corpse of a young woman who had been picked up at Autenil. Unable any longer to continue in Paris, the tai'or went to New York, where two years afterwards he married again. In the month of January the new couple came to Paris, and ren,.ed an apartment in the Avenue Prielland. Ueoently, as the tailor was walking in the Champs Elvseea, he saw a lady wdio looked marvelloualy like his first wife, driving in a handsome equipage, and, hiring a call, he followed her to an hotel in the Avenue D Oylau. There an explanation took place. It was indeed his first wife, who declared that she had been kidnapped and kept in ignoble seclusion for throe months by a man whose name she had never been able to ascertain. When free she had learned to her sorrow that her husband had gone to f. merica, and not daring to return to her relatives, she had entered a dressmaker’s establishment, and so on. Enquiries are now being set on foot in order to discover the kidnapper.