RUNAWAY MATCH

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1932, Page 14

RUNAWAY MATCH

DETERMINED GIRL

Behind tho secret marriage of a 17----year-old girl. to an Italian prince at his castle near Rome lies a romantic story which reads like fiction, says the "Daily Telegraph." ~ It has just been .revealed that Miss Marion Snowden, of Minneapolis, was secretly married to Prince Geronimo Rospigliosi, a scion of one of the oldest families of Rome, in the private chapel at the Rospigliosi Castle. This was the • culmination of a runaway romance which began on- the French Riviera three months previously. Miss Snowden loft 'her parents.to marry the Prince in Italy. Her parents immediately exerted their influence to get;-the Italian authorities to send their daughter: bacK Miss. Snowden locked herself in her ho,tel;'room.Svith a girl friendj.whom she/had" brought with her from the Riviera, and defied the Milan pblipcj, (threatening -to jump from the window if t,hcy dared to break in. Meanyrhile Prince Rospigliosi was staying at another" jidtel, in ..-Milan.The police waited until Miss Snowden canio out of her hotel. They seized .h'eiy rushed her back to the frontier by motor-car, and placed her under the care of her parents again. But she was not1 to be tlnyarted in love.- She bided her time, • and two months later again escaped from parental care and rushed back' to Italy. Again the Italian police were put on her trail, but this time they failed to find her before she was married in closest secrecy by the chaplain of the Rospigliosi family. Although sho is only 17 years of age, she did not need her parents' consent to be married in Italy, where ,the age of consent is i4. "> Prince Rospigliosi, who is of a famous Italian family; is well known in fashionable society in Paris and on the Riviera. His mother was an American.