POLICE COURT ROMANCE.
Offer of Marriage to a Female Prisoner. The police court at West-mount, Quebec, has been the scene of a charming romance. Hilda Sjoberg, a pretty young Swede, was about to be sentenced lo imprisonment for theft, when William Brown, a youthful Canadian, proposed to her in a loud voice, and offered, if her sentence were remitted, to marry her as soon as a license and a minister could be found. The magistrate thought that a domestic fireside might prove a more abiding corrective than the company of convicts, so he suspended sentence pending fulfilment of the lover's pledge. The girl did not reject the offer, so time was given for preparation. That evening, at seven o'clock, in the court-room, a clergyman performed the marriage ceremony.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 15 May 1906, Page 6
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128POLICE COURT ROMANCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8450, 15 May 1906, Page 6
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