SNOWSTORM ABDUCTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 114, 15 May 1908, Page 2

SNOWSTORM ABDUCTION.

SWEETHEART STOLEN FROM A

NUNNERY,

NEW YORK, March 6. A thrilling romance of love and religion which has deeply stirred the people of Ohio ended in the triumph of love, when Judge Leslie united in matrimony Sister Geneva, a beautiful nun,, and,'Mr Raymond Dye, a young man belonging to a good family or Missouri.

Several years ago Miss Lizzie M, Welsh, a wealhy girl of Chicago, whose hand her sturdy lover from Missouri sought in vain, in an access of spiritual fervor entered St. Bernard's Convent and in due course assumed the veil.

Her lover, undaunted, sought every means to dissuade her from taking the irrevocable step. When he heard1 that she had become a nun, he obtained entrance to the convent disguised as a workman, and succeeded, after many failures, in again urging his suit. Tired of a life of renunciation, the beautiful nun at length listened to his passionate protestations and agreed to fly with him, but Mr Dye was discovered by the Mother Superior and ejected. Three nights ago the determined lover returned to the convent at midnight while a blinding snowstorm was raging and signalled to his sweetheart, who crept barefooted downstairs and escaped by means of an open window. Suddenly a cry of "halt" was heard, and a moment l&pev the couple were engaged in a hahd-to-hand struggle with the inmates of the convent, who came rushing into the snow-covered fields. The girl in the darkness made good her escape, but Mr Dye was overwhelmed and carried a prisoner to the convent, where he was kept in durance until the authorities found the nun at the Kiel hotel.

She yielded to their stern commands and acompanied them back to the convent. Mr Dye was then released. He immediately obtained a writ of habeas corpu", and with the assistance of a^ police officer rescued his swetheart. The convent < authorities say that Sister Geneva had not definitely taken the veil at the time of her flight.