A Romantic Elopement.
An arrest which created no little sensation wan made at Miehelstown, County Cork, recently. Three weeks previous there arrived a Scotchman, aced thirty-five yearn, accompanied by a young lady of P‘^P OS3OS ? ing appearance, about eighteen. -I l(! llia prisoner came from Belfast, where ho had seen an advertisement in a newspaper of a vacant situation for a game-trapper on the Kingston Estate, and he obtained tho situation. The charge against the man, on which lie was apprehended, is that of deserting his wife and six children in Scotland, and the young lady was arrested on a charge made Ly her guardian. It turns out that she is a ward in Chancery and heiress to LBO,OOO, and is said to belong to one of the first families in England. It appears she visited a nobleman’s place in Scotland whore the other was gamekeeper, and hence their acq uaintanco. Later in the evening she was removed in the custody of a detective, and the male prisoner was brought before Mr Richard Eaton, Resident Magistrate, and remanded.
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Evening Star, Issue 6819, 5 February 1886, Page 3
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178A Romantic Elopement. Evening Star, Issue 6819, 5 February 1886, Page 3
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