NEGRO ENRAGED.
KIDNAPPING OF BRIDE. UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES. CHICAGO, April 20. A sequel to an extraordinary marriage between a follower of Father Divine, named William Stewart, a negro, and a white girl, Ravel Lazarus, aged 27, belonging to a prominent New York family, who disappeared following a nervous breakdown through overstudy at a university, occurred when the bride’s family seized her at a flat where she was spending the honeymoon and took her home in an ambulance in a comatose condition. Mr Stewart, a vaudeville performer from the Harlem district, was frantic with rage. He swore out a habeas corpus writ in an effort to get the return of his wife and declared that he will invoke the Lindbergh kidnapping law against the girl’s brother and will demand the death penalty against him. Mr Stewart hears a striking appearance, with curled goatee heard and long mustachios. Miss Lazarus ran away from home after she had been receiving treatment following the breakdown and had reached a stage where a cure seemed assured. Father Divine, who is the leader of a negro cult in New York, has a large number of followers who' regard him as a god. Father Divine has been prominent in the news recently, the unusual activities of himself and his “angels” attracting wide attention.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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215NEGRO ENRAGED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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