ROMANTIC ENDING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 4

ROMANTIC ENDING

CAGED COUNTESS WEDDED MAN SHE WENT TO GAOL FOR PARIS. Feb. 18. The adventurous story of beautiful Anna Carolina. Moniei—the , “Caged Countess'' of Holloway Prison—lias had a romantic ending. In September. 1923, alter being sen! out of England as an undesirable alien, she returned ill disguise in a Freneli fishing smack, attired as a young sailor. The venture cost her Id days m gaol. “She merely came here/’ pleaded Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K.U., on the 32-vears-old widow's behalf, “because of lier love.” And Mr. Ilerliert MuskeLt, who prosecuted, said that she explained her motive as jealousy of a Russian girl with whom her lover was alleged to be friendly. Yesterday she married that lover — Captain Patterson, late of the Gordon Highlanders and one of the tirst British olticors to be wounded in It)ld —at the mairie of the. Btli Arrondissemenl here. Ooiinie.ss Moniei. before her adventures in England, was well known in theatrical circles. A pupil of Puccini, she had sung at Hie Sea In at Milan and oilier famous opera houses. For Ihe past, few years .she. lias been painting, and her work is much admired in the advanced artistic circles of Paris. Jt is declared that Iter one-hour portrait sittings produce marvellously artistic results. The wedding reception was held in Countess Moniei's studio in tlm Cite Wagram. where, surrounded by (lowers and pictures, the couple were toasted by their friends—including Princess Gnlitzin, Van Dongen, (lie Dutch painter, and Zadkin, the Russian sculptor.