ROMANTIC ENDING

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 16 April 1930, Page 8

ROMANTIC ENDING

CAGED COVXTESS WEDDED MAX SHE WEXT TO GAOL. FOR The adventurous story of beautiful Anna Monici, the “Cagecll County's” of Holloway Prison, Jjas had a romantic ending 1 . In September, 1923, after being sent out of England as an undesirable alien/ she returned in disguise in a French fishing smack, attired as a young sailor. The venture cost her It days in gaol. “She merely cam. IJere,” pleaded Sir lienery Curtis Bennett, K.C., on the 32-years-old widow’s behalf, “because of h|r love.” And Air Herbert Muskett, who prosecuted, said] that she explained her motive as jealousy of a Russian girl with whom her lover was alhjged to be friencFy. On February 17 she married that lover, Captain Patterson', late of the Gordon Highlanders and one of the first British officers to bd wo'unded in 1914, at the mairie of the Bth Arrondissement in. Paris. Countess Monici, before her adventures in England, was well known in theatrical circles. A pupil of Puccini, she hadj sung at i'l l; Scala at Milan and of her famous opera-houses. For the past few years shc| has been painting, and her work is much admired in the advanced artisne circles of Paris. It is declared that ha* one-ih<our portrait sittings produce marvellously artistic results. The wedding reception was held in Countess Monici’s studio in ilic Cite Wagram, where, surrounded by flowers and pictures, the coup'e were toasted by their friends, including Princess Galitzin, Van Dongen. the Dufch paintrtr, and Zadkin, fho Russian sculptor.