ENGLISH BRIDE’S ORDEAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2127, 9 July 1907, Page 1

ENGLISH BRIDE’S ORDEAL.

FORTNIGHT’S SOLITUDE IN A FOREIGN CELL. Tho peril to which the English girl wilt marries a foreigner exposes herself is illustrated by the pathetic case of Signora Andalo, formerly Miss Nellie Penborton, an assistant in a cigar shop in the West End of London Her husband was arrested on March 9th, at Brussels, on a charge ol thefts of jewellery and on suspicion of being the assailant of Miss Low, tlio English nurse, who in January last was the victim of a brutal assault in a train in the Mont Cenis tunnel. Andalo and liis wife were on their honeymoon when the arrest was made, and both were imprisoned and kept apart. She was kejit for nearly twelve hours without food on the first day of her imprisonment, and underwent all the degrading processes of measurement, photography, etc., to which criminals are subjected. Sho was only discharged after two dreary weeks of solitary confinement in a cell. Unable to speak French, she could not even exchange a word with her warder. AVhcn slio was released she was allowed to visitMier husband in gaol, and informed him, to his great surprise, of tlio charges against him. Andalo was suddenly released on March 28th, only to he hurried over -the Dutch frontier, whither his wife followed him. Tlioir money is exhausted, and sho has not tho £5 necessary to secure admission as an alien to her native country, where, however, she intends to return.

During tho examination which precoded her release, the magistrate asked her whether she knew anything of her husband’s career. It appears that in liis youth lie was the associate of Italian Anarchists, this being the reason why lie has been deported from Belgium. She reolied that she knew nothing of Andalo’s history. The magistrate observed: “That is how English girls get into trouble. They marry foreigners without knowing anything of their past history.”