EXTRA EDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9261, 8 January 1907, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION.

THE HIGH LIFE ELOPEMENT.

MAKING THEIR TROUBLES PUBLIC

STATEMENTS BY MADAME OUCHA

KOFF.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received January 8, 10.2 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, January 8

Madame Ouchakolf states that she is entitled to £50,000 sterling on tdie death of heir mother. She is prepared to relinquish. all right to that providing her pexjple will arrange a divorce and allow a small annuity sufficient for the Captain and herself^, to live in Switzerland when they marry. She went on to say, "The Captain is ill, and can do nobbing. He is a soldier, and cannot speak or understand EnglMi, but I cannot leave him. • I must stick to the man wno lost everything through me. He is sick and accustomed to a good life, and wantsi many comforts that cannot be pwxnured for him owing to our want of money. We do not know what to do, and have even spoken of suicide. I cannot go home. Th© Captain's small fortune is gone, and his service is at an end. He is a deserter, and has ruined himself for me.'