WEDDING IN GAOL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29616, 12 September 1961, Page 10

WEDDING IN GAOL

Bride, Groom

Prisoners

(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright > TURIN (Italy), Sept 10. Wedding bells rang out in Turin prison on Thursday for a convicted thief, Giovanni Troian, aged 33. and his 20-year-old bride, “Angela.’’ Then Giovanni went back to his cell to Complete his gaol sentence—and so did Angela, her mother, her father, the choir and the choir soloist In fact, the only one at the wedding who did not have to return to gaol was the chaplain, Father Ruggiero, the Associated Press said. The whole business started as a prison “pen pal” romance. Giovanni was serving three years in Pisa prison for theft when he read about Angela in a newspaper. She was in gaol in Turin, together with her father, convicted of fraud, and her mother. Because of Angela's age, prison authorities have refused to disclose her name, or the charges on which she and her mother were convicted, the agency said. Giovanni began writing to Angela and romance bloomed. Then he got a transfer to Turin to be nearer his loved one. When he proposed. Angela’s father, in a cell down the hall, readily gave his consent and Father Ruggiero agreed to perform the ceremony. Giovanni and Angela, however, have to wait 20 months for their honeymoon, the Associated Press said. Angela is not due for release until March 27, 1963, and Giovanni is scheduled to get out 10 adays later.