Love Levels All.
The peculiar case of a young woman trying to prove that she has negro blood in her veins will come before the court in Muncle, Ind., says the New York Sum The young woman is the daughter of a prosperous white farmer in that place, and there has never been any suggestion that she was other than of pure white blood, and there is said not to be the slightest ground for her claim now. But she fell in love with a full-blooded negro, and was married to him by a coloured minister last week. It is unlawful in Indiana for white people ani coloured to intermarry, and the couple were arrested and held for unlawful marriage. The girl declares that she is of coloured blood, and will try to prove her allegation in order to keep her husband and to keep him and herself out of gaol. She i3 a deoided blonde and of attractive face and manner.
MRS. EASTON,
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Manawatu Herald, 19 September 1896, Page 3
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164Love Levels All. Manawatu Herald, 19 September 1896, Page 3
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