A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8098, 9 January 1907, Page 3

A ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT

A HOT PURSUIT

MELBOURNE, January 8

Captain Gabriel Essipuli and Madame OncbakofF, who eloped from St. Petersburg in May last, and since have been fleeing from the lad\'s infuriated husband, have arrive! in Melbourne, and are now in straitened circumstances.

Mdrue. Onchakoff states that she is entitled to £50,000 sterling on the death of her mother. She is prepared to relinquish all right to that, providing her people will arrange a divorce and allow her a small annuity sufficient for Captain E?sipoff and herself to live in Switzerland when they marrv.

She goes on to say: "Captain Essipoff is ill, and he can do nothing. He is a soldier, and cannot speak or understand English, but I cannot leave him. I must stijk to the mau who lost everything through me. He is sick, and, being accustomed to good

living, wants many comforts that cannot be provided for him owing to our want of money. We do not know what to do, and have evea spoken of suicide. I cannot go home, the captain's small fortune is gone, his service is at an end, he is a deserter, and he has ruined himself for me."