BRIDE SEIZED
TAKEN AWAY FROM NEGRO HUSBAND ALLEGATION OF KIDNAPPING IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, April 20. A sequel to an extraordinary marriage between a follower of Father Devine named William Stewart, a negro, and a white girl, Ravel Lazarus, aged 27, belonging to a prominent New York family, who disappeared following a nervous breakdown through overstudy at a university, occurred when the bride’s family seized her at a flat where she was spending the honeymoon and took her home in an ambulance in a comatose condition. Stewart, a vaudeville performer from the Harlem district, was frantic with rage. He swore out a habeas corpus writ in an effort to get the return of his wife and declared that he will invoke the Lindbergh kidnapping law against the girl’s brother and will demand the death penalty against him. Stewart bears a striking appearance, with curled goatee beard and long mus tachios. Miss Lazarus ran away from home after she had been receiving treatment following the breakdown and had reached a stage where a cure seemed assured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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174BRIDE SEIZED Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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