MARRIED IN GAOL
BOY AND GIRL ROMANCE love letters on darts vTimes Air Mail Service) LONDON, April 22. Boy and girl prisoners in Birmingham. Alabama, gaol were married in the Sheriff’s office of the prison today—then led hack to their separate cells', says the New York correspondent of the Daily Mirror. Evelyn Hoppe, 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 tlie corridor to the other cell. Evelyn darted her message back. Then last night Preston's dart bore Hie 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.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20506, 24 May 1938, Page 10
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159MARRIED IN GAOL Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20506, 24 May 1938, Page 10
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