THE PARIS "ABDUCTION" CASE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE PARIS "ABDUCTION" CASE.

The "abduction" at Paris of Mdlle. de Campos has now become a greater enigma than ever. It turns out that the man Mielvaque, alias the Vicomte de la Cour de Garbceuf, was a nobleman. M. Pascal, brother-in-law of the pseudo viscount, says that his wife's brother had no such title as that which he had given to himself. He knew that the abduction was to take place, but he did not know when, and he wrote to 4 the Spanish lawyer, Senor Euben Donaden, telling him that his brother-in-law had taken away the lady through love. Pascal says he also refused a sum of 800/., which the counsel offered him if he would tell where the couple were. Finally M. Pascal has produced letters from one of the maids of Mdlle. de Campos, who acted as the messenger between the lovers. The documents are not, of course, written in classical style, but they show — amid a good deal of bad grammar and detestable orthography — thattheyoung'Spanisli lady had been smitten by the handsome adventurer, and that she was very unhappy when she did not meet him at the church or in the Bois. The questors of the Chamber of Deputies have ordered M. Pascal and M. Geheneuo de Lano, who are both employed at the Palais Bourbon, to appear before them to explain their alleged complicity in the abduction. Mdlle. de Campos has arrived at Dover with four gentlemen, one of whom was M. Miche. Mielvaque. She was followed by the agent of her family and a French police-officer, who, on failing to discover her, communicated with the Dover police who found theparty at an hotel. Thither the French officer, who was armed with a warrant, proceeded, accompanied by a representative of the Spanish consulate in London ; but acting upon the advice of the local police, who refused to arrest as Mdlle. de Campos was over age according to English law, an interview took place. The whole of tho circumstances were explained to Mdle. de Campos by the consul, and she then pointed to M. Mielvaque and said, " That is the man I wish to be my husband." Under these circumstances the Dover police explained that they could not interfere.