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HE KILLED TWO MEN. I; Stroud killed a man in Juneau, Alaska, when he was 18 years old, and was sent to McNeil Island, where, according to government testimony at his trial, he was a violent prisonerand was transferred to Leavenworth.i He stabbed and killed a guard there and was sentenced to death. President Wilson commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Stroud contended he killed the guard in self-defense. Government officers asserted Stroud Was a vicious prisoner and when he was disarmed of a dagger fashioned from a table knife the searchers found several other knives, i Lawyers who examined Stroud’s i “ittarriage contract” said that so far, as they understood the matter thecontract is valid. !It is believed Stroud has based his right to establish a “contract marriage” on the supposition that the federal prison is not a part of Kansas and not subject to the civil laws of Kansas and that under common i law back to the Napoleonic code prior to the Louisiana Purchase mar- jplages by common law were valid. _ *
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Oct 22, 1933
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