A CIPSY ROMANCE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12769, 15 April 1910, Page 4

A CIPSY ROMANCE.

An extraordinary gipsy romance has taken place at Szeut-Marton, on the Roumanian frontier. Anatasia Bobulj daughter of a wealthy landowner, conceived a passion for Janos Vojtila, a violinist and chief of a gipsy band, and an elopement was arranged. It was agreed that the gipsies should attack the land owner's castle and pretend to carry the girl away by force. Vojtila prom- ■ ised to take her to America, saying he would make a name by his playing." ■ A night attack on the castlo was duly made, but, having secured tho girl, the gipsies proceeded to -plunder the oastie while the girl and her lover fled in a caravan. The landowner and his servants armed themselves, killed two gipsies, wounded others, and ; finally forced them to retreat. Then, when order- was- restored the landowner first noticed that his daughter was missing. After several days' search the girl was discovered in the depths of a fori est without covering of any description 1 She had been abandoned by her lover, ; who had robbed her of everything. Some of her faithful servants succeed* ed in- tracing Vojtila and beat him to death with clubs. .... { The heroine of this wild romance is now lying in a" hopeless condition. Her death is expected every hour, as she is suffering from inflammation of the lungs as a result of her hardships in the forest. . :'.