The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-11
WEEDS HER UNFROCKED PRIEST
AND WRITES HOME ~ COULDN'T
LIVE HAPPY WITHOUT NM

They Haven't a Dollar Between Them, but
He's Goins 10 work as Handy Man
End Of Romance That Cost Father
DoIinac His Career and Put Him In jail
! II John Fratter. the father Of eighteen
year-old Anna Fratter, isn't pretty angry
already over the conduct of his daughter,
! he Is sure TO be to-day when this letter
written by her, reaches his home at AS
! Ninth avenue:
DEAR PARENTS. | am writing you few
| lines. hoping that you are we'd end happy
| Dear mother and father. / have married the
! man love / know well that | could not
| live happy without that man. Dear mother
and father. | do hope you will forgive me.
Closing with love, / remain your loving
| daughter ANNA DoLISAo.
The man that Anna loves was the Rev.
Father Evan Dolinac, a scholarly young
Austrian priest On account of her he
has not only sacrificed his frock and under
gone humiliation at the hands Of the Church
authorities, but also he has been arrested
and locked up for time.
The marriage took place last Tuesday
night. unknown to the girls parents, in
the branch law Office of Semple. Liebeskind
4 Fischer, at $50 East Sixty-eighth street,
the ceremony being performed by Leo
Setback. member Of the firm and notary
public. Dolinac and the girl didn't then
have a dollar between them. For that
matter. they haven't a dollar now, and
Dolinac is ready 10 start TO work at almost
any sort Of a job. He would prefer to
translate Latin. Greek and the Slavonlc
languages for hire; but if nothing in that
line has turned up by this morning, he's
going TO buckle in as a handy man in
physicians office
Since their marriage the couple have
been living at the home Of one of Doinac
friends, oblivious OF everything except
their own happiness and possibly the
thoughts of what may happen upon the
appearance of the irate Fratter, senior.
The path Of true love trodaen by the
eI-priest and his bride has been mapped
ont agmentary in the newspapers for
several months. II lends from this city 10
Chicago and back again, with devious turn
ings. including. as has been sld. run
into police court in this city fe'terday
after the above letter had been mailed to
papa" the couple for :he first time, gavo
their version OF what had been done by
them and why they did IT,
Evan Dolinac was born in an eastern
province Of Austria and early in life began to
prepare himself for the priesthood. He was
eight years in the gymnasium AT Bosnia and
four years in the university al Budapest
He was an honor student. For eleven
months he served as professor OF theology
at Bosnia. and at the age OF 80 ne was
selected to come to this city and take charge
OF the work Of establishing churches tor
his countrymen in this country
Two years ago he arrived in this CITY
He went to live with friends at Az West
Forty-eeventh street. and undertook at
once the work for which he had come,
entering upon it enthusiastically and meet
ing with a good deal Of success. be carried
credentials from two Cardinals whom he
had impressed with his zeaf and he. was
encouraged in his work by Archbishop
Farley who Is said to have admired greatly
the Young priests Latin scholarship.
Then he met the fratter girl his
WAS last August. She was good looking,
short and plump, with red lips and red
cheeks and large. kind gray eyes She
also was an Austrian having been born
in the same province from which the priest
came.
i loved Evan the very first time ever
saw him said the bride yesterday but
didn't know il then and never suspected
that it was going 10 be so serious
The priest struggled against his infatua-
ton for the girl and finally. in January,
left this city for Chicago. resolved he says
10 respect the tenets OF the church he
intended to continue his work IN that CITY
He correspondent with the girl. however.
sending his letters to one Of her friends
for the girl's father had oil covered his
daughters affection for the priest and had
forbidden her TO see him.
About three. weeks ago, Miss tratter
disappeared from her home Several
days later came letter from Chicago say
ing that she was happy. The father en-
ployed detectives. and, going West brought I
her back with him. About the same time
the priest went 10 Archbishop Qmgley
OF Chicago, and stripping of his priestly
Roman collar handed it to him, saying
Il desire TO be priest no longer.
The girl, upon her return to New York.
went to work in a store IN West thirty
fourth street One evening two weeks
ago, when she was returning home from
the store with girl friend, she met Dolinac.
He had heard she was working ~ West
Thirty fourth street, hut had not been able
10 get the address. He was watching FOR
her this night "a he had done Tor several |
other nights
Tho girl friend counsellod Miss Fratter
TO have nothing moro to do with him. but
the Fratter girl refused to listen 10 her.
Thcn the friend went. TO the Frattcr home
and reported what had happened The
father started out at once. and that night
had Doinac arrested on charge of ahduC- /
ton. He was held for three days in the 1
West Side court prison and discharged +
when he said that ne was willing TO marry
the girl
Last Monday he met her again IA she was
returning from work and made an p
pointment with her for the next night at
O'Clock. She met him and they went at
once 10 the lawyers office and were mar /
RED
Doinac declared yesterday that he did
not regret in the least what he had done
Il love her and | am happy said he.
He is Of square athletic build, with a
strong, well formed face. deep set blue
eyes and long wavy black hair
IL PAL MERiS NERII