Alice Belskis Ryan

United Press International · March 7, 1962

Mrs. Alice Belskis Ryan, 41-year-old mother of 4 daughters, is shown as she held a press conference in the office of her lawyer. Philip T. Fiering, here 3/7. Mrs. Ryan has filed a $2,375,000 suit against the Roman Catholic Church, Francis Cardinal Spellman and other individuals, charging they kidnaped her husband, Walter A. Ryan, 57. Mrs. Ryan claims she and Ryan were secretly married in 1950 while he was assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church in Glen Cove, N.Y. The suit said the church and its officials had full knowledge of the marriage and the children