PRINCESS AND GIPSY.
TRAGIC END TO A SENSATIONAL ELOPEMENT STORY.
A sensational elopement after the. fashion set by the Princess Chimay has occurred at Balaton Fuered, a summer resort in the Carpathians. Among the visitors were Prince Ivan Semonowski, described as a descendant of the former kings of Lithuania, with his two sons and a daughter, aged 19. Their highnesses were in the habit of visiting a garden restaurant, where a Magyar gipsy orchestra played. One evening Princess Olga Semonowski eloped with one of these musicians, an ugly, repulsive man, 49 years of age. Prince Semonowski and his two sons gave chase, but did not overtake the fugitives till next evening. They administered chastisement to the man, which he is likely to remember all his life, and gave the princess a loaded revolver, telling her she bad dishonoured their name. She committed suicide immediately, and was buried without much ceremony in the remote village where she was overtaken with her gips,y. lover*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11771, 28 September 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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