A SISTER’S JEALOUSY.

Matamata Record, Volume X, Issue 883, 15 December 1927, Page 5

A SISTER’S JEALOUSY.

SCENE IN VENICE CHURCH. i _ . Wedding Interrupted. An/ extraordinary scene took place during a wedding ceremony in a church at Venice when Orestes Ballin, an ele gant and fashionable ladies’ hairdresser of St. Mark’s, was about to marry the elder of two sisters, a certain Helen Mattioli, who is distinguished . for her beauty, like her prototype Helen ot Troy. The stylish barber had for seven years courier! sisters —Linda, aged 28, and Helen, aged 30—without knowing which of the. two to choose. Finally the mother insisted on his coming to a (decision, and the lot fell on Helen. But Linda declared that she would revert to extremes to prevent the marriage, and her jealousy was such that Ao police were requested to protect the bride and bridegroom on the day of the marriage. . _ Police inspectors were posted in tlis<ntise before the house with orders to prevent Linda from following the bridal pair. But Linda went to the house of a lady friend and issued later on, disguised as an old woman and covered with a dark veil, and escaped the notice -of the policemen. The bridal party went in gondolas in great state to the Church of San Zaccaria, and when the priest during the ceremony asked the bridegroom the sacramental words there was a sudden and violent interruption. Linda, in her disguise as an old woman, rushed from behind a pillar, stepped before the bride, and screamed maledictions on Aer. She flung her veil in the bride’s face’ and, for want of vitriol, hurled corrosive epithets at her sister. She was with difficulty seized and taken out of the church, whilst the bride nearly fainted. Finally, however, the ceremony was continued and the married couple left Venice, Linda being temporarily detained by the police to prevent further trouble.