NEGRO AND WHITE WIFE

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 April 1938, Page 7

NEGRO AND WHITE WIFE

FAMILY SEIZE BUtDE [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] CHICAGO, April 20. There has been a sensational sequel to an extraordinary marriage between a negro man and a white woman. The bridegroom is a follower of the negro “prophet” Father Divine, and is named William Stewart. The white girl was named Ravel Lazarus. She is twenty-seven years of age, and belongs to a prominent New York family. The woman disappeared, following on a nervous breakdown!, thiough overstudy at the University. The sequel occurred when the bride’s family seized her, at the flat, where she was speeding the honeymoon, and they took her home in an ambulance. She was in a comatose condition. The bridegroom, Stewart, is a vaudeville performer, from the Harlem district in New York. He was frantic with rage at the seizure of his wife. He swore a Habeas Corpus writ in an effort to get the return of his wife, and he declared that he will invoke the Lindbergh kidnapping law against the girl’s brother, and will demand the death penalty against him. Stewart is a man who bears a striking appearance, with a curled goatee beard, and long mustachios. Ravel Lazarus ran away from home after she had been receiving treatment, following a breakdown, and she had reached a stage where a cure seemed assured.