St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-29
MAULED BY MALATO.
Nina Van Zandt'S Husband Is
Said to Be Already Weary
Of Her.
He Rules the Former Widow
Of Anarchist Spies Like a
Tyrant,
Showers Trades Of Abuse
Upon Her Both in Public
and in Private,
And Has Already Converted
the Honeymoon Into a Mis-
cradle Farce.

NEW YORK, July 2S.-She who was
Nina Van Zandt and the maid-widow OF
the executed anarchist, August Spies, is
spending few days in this city before
going abroad with her new husband,
Raphael MalatO, and there is every indi-
cation that she is a very unhappy bride,
1t is not the ghost of the dear depart
ed' that destroys her peace Of mind and
brings the sad look to her face, but the
actions of the dearer one ever present,
who, in short time, so rumor says,
has managed to show himself a
tyrant aud who rules with a rod
of iron and hard words the brand
new wife who by her every action shows
how much she loves him. Nina Van
Zandt's recent marriage to Malato is
still fresh in the public recollection. 1t
occurred the night of July IL at the resi-
dence of the brides mother on Schiller
street, Chicago. Nina looked both hand
some and happy, and her husbands face
shOne with the etfulgence of an ideal
realized. The brides anarchist friends
in Chicago, however, were disguised
with her. They regarded her marriage
so soon after the death of the devoted
Spies as slur upon his memory.
Married for Her Money.
Raphael Malato is only twenty-five
years old. Unkind rumOr places Nina'S
age at thirty. 1t is said also thai she
married him for love. Italians who
know MalatO we'll declare that he mar
ried her for her money. 1t was learned
to-day upon the best of authority that,
although the honeymoon is only two
weeks old, it has already diSintegrated
and tloated off in small pieces invisible
to the eye of sympathy. Nina, the
bride of two weeks, is vastly miserable
with her boy husband.
Raphael MalatO has only been an in
mate of MinOttO ROYersi's hotel, at No.
237 East Fourteenth street, since Tues
day last, Oh which date he took rooms
for his bride and himself, but in that
short interval he has succeeded i'll MAX
ing mauy enemies among the habitues
of the place by his bruSque manners and
generally naughty demeanor.
a day or so after the couple became
settled in their apartments the employees
began to notice that Mrs. Malato fire.
quently came down to her meals with
her eyes red with weeping. The young
husband made little attempt to conceal
his bad temper.
Weeps and Says Nothing.
After the couple had retired to their
rooms Malato's irritated tones could be
heard as he found fault with this and
that act of his wife. He would pour
forth perfect cascades of reproach upon
her. He was dissatisfied with every
thing she did. In vain the eavesdrop-
perS waited to hear her pay him back in
kinds words, but the widow of the
dauntless Spies. the woman who. could
sacrifice everything for an idea, was
speeches. before the unreasonable
wrath of her boy husband. To none of
his reprOacheS did she hazard reply,
except in tears.
In public Malatto is in the habit of
striding about like an unappreciate q
hero. His eyebrows are always knitted,
and his prevailing expression is one of
discomfort. In Roversi'S restaurant
such behavior is nOtapt to go unnoticed,
and it soon became the general empress
sion that MalatO was surly and unSO-
ciabie. He made no bones about finding
fault with his wife in such tone as to
be easily overheard by Mr.. RoYersi and
the walters.
Can't Even Feed the Cat!
On one occasion Mrs. Malato STOPPED
over playfully and fed mOrsel of food
to large black cat, which is one of
the particular pets of the patrons of the
restaurant. This simple act drove the
boy husband into parOXysm of rage.
He sprang to his feet and paced about
the restaurant excitedly, asking his
wife in all the explosives within the
vocabulary of an angry Italian husband
what she meant by feeding a cat in his
presence and in public place. 1t was
some time before he could be suffi-
GENTLY Gained down to be able to re-
sumo his meal. Then it was apparent,
from the chances he shot at his Submis-
sve spouse from time to time, that he
was reServing an eloquent TRADE for
her benefit when he got her up stairs.
What the people are unable to under
stand is why the erstwhile heroic mind
so calmly submits to the abuse her huS-
band heaps upon her. She is known to
have wealthy connections and money in
her own right, and, Furthermore. it is
said, she pays good part of the bills as
she and her boy husband go along. An
other peculiar circumstance is that while
SuC DOooGooGO a lttll hllOMlCQSO VI IuC
Italian tongue she has never been known
to raise voice of reprOach against him.
Nina TO Essay Journalism.
Mr.. Roversi says that the couple were
to have gone Immediately abroad. He
does not understand why they are here
yet. 1t seems that Nine. Malato has
arranged with syndicate of papers 10
send them a weekly letter recording
her impressions of the fair to be held at
Palermo in October. She is to get Sl5
from each paper for every letter she
writes.
Mr.. Malato also goes abroad on bust
ness, but his mission is to see Italian
and show the ACCESSIBILITY of
making a special effort to glOrify their
country in their contributions in 1898 at
the Chicago fair.
A number of Italians of this city who
claim to know all about Malato are very
much Disguised with him. They say he
represented himself to be San Malato,
which is a very old and powerful Italian
family. This they declare is a bare
faced lie. So far from belonging to the
San MalatO family they aver that Nina's
husband is simply Malato, the son of
a policeman, and thus of very inferior
social station. His name, instead of
being the noble one, Stephen San Ma
Iato, is said to be simply plain Raphael