A VERY UNSATISFACTORY HONEYMOON.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 2005, 29 June 1886, Page 3

A VERY UNSATISFACTORY HONEYMOON.

AT the Novgorod (Russia) prison chapel a enrioii co«ple were recently married. A yoang fallow of the name of Zanizki, who had been sentenced' to a term of impiiionmaat of fourteen years sad six month* hard labour, married a young girl who was the daughter 'of *- soldier, YefremoflF, and had been ralMMtd from the Novgorod prison at the beginning of the present year. Zatniiki bad told bit brother of hii intention to many, but the latter thought the priaenejuntapA* deeming it impoMible that any woman could be ptsrsuaded to many a eonviefci He was, however, convinced of the tnjfuby the priion administration consenting to the marrioge. On the wedding day the warder appeared in the prisioner's cell, hie chains were removed, he wan dresin a black suit, and taken to ohapel were the bride appeared with the bridegroom's brother, dreised in a white bridal dr.ss and veil. Atiwo o'clock, the ceremony was begun, sevefal pruonera i assisting. One hoar the newr/ jnurried were allowed to spend together in the cell, the warder drinking their health,^.and then retiring to leave them with a st«arnM>g tea-urn and sentinel at tbe door. Duririg^he whole ( of tbe time the husband tried to persuade his wife to go with him to the convict colony, to which he will shortly be despatched. , At the expiration of the hour the warder reappeared, the convict doffed hi* wedding garments for hie priaonl gear, and the wife weut silently ' away, accompanied by her husband's brother. '"■' •'■■■-• ■•■•.. :. .