GAOL ROMANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 4

GAOL ROMANCE

LOVE LETTERS ON DARTS. MARRIED IN SHERIFF’S OFFICE. Boy and girl prisoners in Birmingham, Alabama,' gaol were married in the Sheriff’s office of the prison and then led back to their separate cells, says the New York correspondent of the “Daily Miror.” Evelyn Hope, pretty, raven-haired twenty-three-year-old prisoner, found her cell facing that of Preston Cartledge,, in gaol on a robbery charge. They smiled at each other. Talking was not allowed, so Preston began to think out a way of sending messages across to Evelyn’s cell. He made a paper dart, wrote a brief letter and shot it across the corridor to the other cell.

Evelyn darted her message back. Then Preston’s dart bore the words, “Will you marry me?” Evelyn said she Would.

So they told the good news to Sheriff Mac Duff, who called a parson. They’re back in the cells now, still throwing darts—and kisses.

One of the most notable of the world’s volcanic eruptions occurred in 1852, when Mount Etna (Sicily) erupted. It lasted nine months, the lava flow extended for six miles, its depth being from 10 to 12 feet. An Irishman got off a train at a station for refreshments, but the train started before he had finished his sandwich. Running along the platform after the train he shouted: “Hold on, there! Hold 'on! You’ve got a passenger aboard that’s left behind!”