ENGLISH GIRL’S HONEYMOON EXPERIENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 3 June 1907, Page 1

ENGLISH GIRL’S HONEYMOON EXPERIENCE.

Again and again have English girls been warned of the danger of marry? ing foreigners of wfiqse antecedents they know nothing. Warnings, however, appear to be futile. The latest to suffer through want of a little judicious inquiry is a young lady who was formerly Miss Nellie Pemberton, at one time an assistant iu a London cigar shop.

Miss Pemberton married" an Italnamed Andalo, and tho pair were in Brussels on their honeymoon #wlien they were arrested, the husband being suspected of jewellery lefts, and also of tho attack on Miss Low, the English nurse, in tho Mont Cenis tunnel.

They were confine?.) ill separate cells, Signora Andalo being kept for nearly 12 hours without food on the first day of her imprisonment, and undergoing all the degrading processes of measurement', photography, etc., to which criminals are subject? rtd- She was only discharged after two dreary weeks of solitary confinement in the cell, Unable to speak French, she could not even exchange a word with her warder. *

During the examination which preceded her release, the magistrate alsked her whether she knew anything of her husband’s career. It -aii.pears that in bis \it> Wns the associate of Italian Anarchists, this being tile reason why he had been deported from Belgium. S

replied that she knew nothing of Andalo’s history. The magistrate observed: “That is bow English girls get into trouble. Tliey marry foreigners without knowing anything of their past history,”