MARRIED WHILST UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.
A singular marriage is reported from (he United States. A morbid young; woman, of an excellent family, offered to marry Spies, an Anarchist, who lies under sentence of death in (Jidoago gaol for the murderous attack last year upon the police. As the authorities would not permit such a ceremony to take placo in the prison, Spies prepared a written document which deputed his brother to act as his proxy at the wedding. The marriage was celebrated in this manner, the quasi groom giving the responses in the name of his imprisoned brother.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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99MARRIED WHILST UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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