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800Yoifroihan+ iUSERT T. PATRICE.has been so faithful to him during hit long incarceration. and the exhausting tension of the long-drawn-out trial made the Tombs officials more alert tc prevent a marriage in the prison.The marriage is said to have beer accomplished, however, while the mat ron was present. The latter, however was so much preoccupied while attend ! ing to the linen and her other duties ' that she was unaware what was going on.Mrs. Francis, accompanied by hei attorney, her sister and Patrick’s fath er, called at the Tombs and asked foi a conference with the prisoner. H« was escorted to the matron’s room am after a few moments the guard is sailt; i to have stepped outside. It is said tht wedding contracts were then signed bj i Patrick and Mrs. Francis in duplicate Under a law enacted by the legis lature a year ago. this form of mar ■ riage is lawful when the signing of th* contract is witnessed by two persons To perfect the ceremony it is onl necessary to file a copy of the contract with a magistrate within six months.PATRICK MARRIED.(gad* Mr*. Francis Drspita I ha Deetar*. tlon of the Officers,New York, March 31. Albert T. Pat rick, convicted last week of murder it the first degree, for plotting the deatl of Millionaire William Marsh Kice and now awaiting the death sentence, and Mrs. Addie, L. Francis have beIcome husband and wife in the matron'! rrgmi of the Tombs, according to th* American and Journal. A pen t:trok» did it, despite all measures taken tt prevent it.The arrangements were so perfeetlj made, so secretly planned and so clev erly executed that not until the mar riage was irrevocably complete, wcr» Patrick’s guards cognizant that it wat even intended. The fact that Cotnmia sioner of Correction Jiynes had de clared his opposition to a marriage betw*jeu iu« ptiBOUei duJ th*^ WOQilt;M Whi
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Bryan Morning Eagle
Bryan, Texas, US
Tue, Apr 01, 1902
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