NOT SO SECRET

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 4

NOT SO SECRET

LOVE IN U.S. GAOL COUPLE AWAITING TRIAL SAN FRANCISCO. May 10. Passionate love letters are being exchanged by 17-year-old Beulah Overell and her fiance, Bud Gollum, in Santa Ana Gaoi. The couple are awaiting trial for the murder of the girl’s wealthy parents, when a time-bomb exploded on their palatial yacht Marge at Newport Beach. California, on March 15. The authorities, permitting the flow of letters are secretly opening and photographing them before delivery to see what they can learn. One letter opened revealed a plot by Gollum to escape. Plump, solid Beulah addressed her fiance as “Popsie,” proclaimed her love and pleaded with him .to marry her. Gollum. calling her “Baby Doll" threatened to kill her if she ever left him for another man. "Money No Object” Gollum also asked for a diagram of the women s section of the prison so they could plan their escape. Both denied in their letters that the £187,500 left Beulah by her parents made anv difference in their lo\ e. The girl offered to sign over the property to Gollum provided he were

"never unfaithful to me in word or deed.”

The pair appeared in court yesterday to hear an amended charge of killing the parents separately, ' instead of jointly.

The husky youth wore bright red socks to the morning session and green socks in the afternoon, explaining: "Beulah knitted them for me. 1 wanted her to know I am .thinking of her always.”