THROUGH STEEL BARS.
MARRIED IN CONDEMNED CELL
TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 5
Standing within 20 feet of the electric chair in which he will be executed for murder, Salvatore Merra was married yesterday to Jenny Tripode. The ceremony took place in order to legitimise the blonde, curly-headed threc-year-old boy, who romped in the gaol corridor while the priest the marriage service The couple were married through the steel bars of the condemned cell, tire boy’s father standing inside and tiie young mother and the priest standing outside. As the ceremony concluded both wept bitterly, the mother almost collapsing as she lifted the boy to kiss his father through the bars.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3677, 13 August 1927, Page 4
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109THROUGH STEEL BARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3677, 13 August 1927, Page 4
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