Cretan "Romeo And Juliet" Find More Trouble
(10.30 a.i11.) ATHENS, Sept. 3. The troubles of Crete’s “Romeo and Juliet” —20-ycar-old Thassoula I’etraghiorghis and Constantine Kcfaloghianni, members of rival families who brought Crete to the brink of civil war by eloping to the mountains —arc not over yet. The couple yesterday presented themselves to the commander of the forces sent from Greece to prevent an outbreak of fighting arising from the affair. The young lovers (lew to Athens yesterday on the orders of the Greek Government, and today Constantine was taken into custody after a warrant was issued by the Heraclion prosecutor on charges of abduction and illegal carrying of arms. As soon as Constantine had been led away to gaol, his uncle, Lieut.-General Manolis. took Thassoula to a secret hiding-place and rejected her father's pleas for the return of his daughter. General Manolis claimed that Thassoula was legally married and. therefore. the property of the Kcfaloghianni family. Thassoula's father can begin proceedings for the dissolution of the marriage on the grounds that Thassoula was a minor when she was married, but the procedure will be lengthy and' it is doubted in Athens whether it will be begun. A more likely development is a vendetta of reprisals and counter-reprisals by members of the two families in Crete.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23349, 4 September 1950, Page 5
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