ROMANCE COMES TO BORSTAL GIRL
Impressed by the devotion of a 22-year-old pedlar for a girl of 20 who is in Aylesbury Borstal institution, the authorities have decided to release the girl 15 months before her term is finished in order that the couple may marry. The bridegroom-to-be is .laities Edward Fuller, of Manchester, and the romance was begun by a sprig of lavender. The girl was on license from Borstal at the time, and in the market-place at Lancaster she offered the lavender to Fuller’s father, who was aceomI ■ - duction a friendship sprang up between the girl and the y.ning pedlar. But the girl rommitted another offence and was ordered back to Borstal to serve the rctn.aider of her term, which would have extended un il June, 10 »o Before she went, the ho% confessed his love for her, and asked her to marry him lie promised to wait. The girl wept at this evidence of the trust he had in her. That was last November, and since their parting then they have written to each other as often as regulations allow.
Lavender Sprig Began Friendship With Pedlar
Fuller hns been busy in other wavs, > too. He interested the Aylesbury a After-Care Association in the case, c and they heartened him by their view s that, the girl would make a very good Y wife. * ‘‘She Will Go Straight” .- “ They brought my wish to marry to the notice of the governor, who was , very sympathetic,” lie told a reporter. “ I have had letters from the assorintion and the governor, and now the ised in April, a few days after hop birthday. “ The governor has arranged for the wedding to take place, if we wish it, in the Roman Catholic chapel attached to the institution. »nd I think that is ‘ where it will be. 1 “The girl, a Catholic, has promised me. in the presence of a priest, that tent with „ that. I know sin* means it. e • i make a living wage each week. is '■ is only eying ib nit.” e The governor has notified the young n couple that the name of the institus lion will not appear on the marriage lines.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)
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