AN ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9261, 8 January 1907, Page 5

AN ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.

SAD SEQUEL.

[press association.] (Received January 8, 12.43 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, January 7.

Captain Gabriel Essipfaif and Madame Onchakoff, who eloped from St. Peters burg "in May last, and have since been fleeing from the lady's infuriated husband a distinguished Russian general, have arrived in Melbourne.

. lliey are now in straitened circumstances

The details of their flight, until they reached England (via Paris and New York), where all trace of them was sup posed to be lost, has already been pub lished.

It appears from the lady's story to the press that they eluded her husband© spies by motoring to Southampton, where they boarded the steamer Kenilworth Castle and sailed for the Cape. They had intended to go to Bombay.

They then awaited the arrival of the Havei-sham Grange, to proceed to New Zealand, but ultimately shipped on the Paparoa and landed at Hobart. They assert they were spied on there, and came to Sydney, still with the spies, on their track.

They eventually crossed to Melbourne. Their immediate financial necessities have been relieved by the receipt to-day of £50 from the lady's mother. The couple ane both in delicate, health.