NO RIGHT TO WED
"DEAD" BRIDEGROOM Although the New York authorities regard Fred Traina as "legally dead," he intends to be married. He Avas sentenced in 1920 to 20 years imprisonment for second-degree miTT der. His conduct "while in prison was exemplary, and in 1934 he was released on parole. Traina met Mildred Lattarulo, aged 32, confessed his past, and applied for a marriage licence. Uic Brooklyn City' Clerk refused to grant one. on the ground that "the law specifically says that a man convicted of murder and sentenced to imprisonment loses all his civil rights and is civilly dead, ha\ing no right to wed." Traina carried the matter to the Supremo Court, where the judge ordered the City Clerk to grant the marriage licence. "It seems silly to a man out into the world," the judge said, "telling him he mustn't do wrong, and then telling him he must rot do right by n.i.i:ving."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 261, 22 January 1941, Page 8
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155NO RIGHT TO WED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 261, 22 January 1941, Page 8
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