A Prison Romance.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13602, 23 May 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Prison Romance.

A marriage of a pathetic i-hnracter took place on March 21 at tlie City Hall at Xi«». the bridefroom being a convict. Tbemistochs Dentici. aged twenty-six. and the bride a yonng girl for whose sake he committed a crime which caused him to be rtcently 'sentenced to eight years' penal servitude in French ffuiana. Dentici is the son of a retired general, and worked as an accountant. In November, 1906. he obtained work at Heansoleil, near* Xice. and went to live at an inn kept by a family naimd Oreng". He became engaged to the landlord's daughter. Ann Marie. and earned the hatred of several relatives of iik fiancee. Anonymous complaints «> r - .-.-fit to tha police about him, but. he was always able to clear himself. Meeting one of his slanderers. Moria Beloni, Dentici. after a violent dispute, shot him dead. He was arrested, tried, and senten-

ced. Mdlte. Orengo wrote to her lover in gao! saying she was more attached to him

than ever, and she would marry him in spite of his sentence. The necessary permission was obtained, and the marriage took pbre on the date above mentioned. The bride was drcesed in dark grey, and looked extremelv sad. When her* lover.

handcuffed and guarded by two detective.". entered the room she fainted, anrl was nn-«:»>n>eiot!L-i for twenty minute*. The convict had been allowed to wear ordinary clothes, and the detectives having tindandenffed him the ceremony proceeded. Both bride- and groom wept silently as they >.r«od holding each other's hands. Evervone present was affected to tears. When the ceremony was over and the bride and bridegroom had exchanged p.assionate farewells, the registrar delivered an exhortation, praising the bride's "noble act." and wishing the newly-married pair much happiness in the future. The detectives then stepped forward and led the prisoner, his face hidden in his- hands, from the room. He goes at once to the penal settlements in French Hniana. where, if ),;«, behaviour is good. hi< wif,. will b- allowed jr. go em to him at the end of four vear*.