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AA)STRANGE WEDDING PACT. * j j“Contract of Marriage,’’ According to Robert F. Stroud, Iiinds Him to Mrs. Delia May Jones,a Widow.1!The amazing career of Robert F, Stroud, serving a life sentence for murder and held in solitary confinement in the federal prison at Leavenworth, has turned to a romance as strange as the chapters of his own j life story.The man for whom a gallows oncewas built and whose life was sparedby President Wilson holds forth now jthat he has taken a wife within themeaning ofthe law. Stroud, the convict who has built from illiteracy and handicaps of solitary confinement a reputation nation-wide as an authority on canaries and is a skilled i mathematician, is seeking to establish in common law a marriage with the woman who has been to him “every- ! thing that a true, loving and faithful wife could possibly be.”
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Kansas City Star

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Sun, Oct 22, 1933

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