Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-28
WOOED IN CELL,
MARRIED IN JAIL
WIDOW BECOMES BRIDE AFTER
IMPRISONMENT
7etrothsI Her Undoins-Wss Locked
Up Second Time for Celebrating
Engsgement-Love-Makine
Under Difficulties
snecial tn rhn IIoraid

Special to The Herald.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27--A slx-months'
wooing of woman i'm Jail by a man
on the outside eliminated Tuesday
morning in the marriage I'm the office
of the 81. Clair county jail at Belle
Vile of Mrs. Mamie Sullivan, aged 33,
to Isaac Dillon, aged 40 a Belleville
coal miner. The woman had just been
released after serving sentence of
SIX months for vagrancy, when she
was married by Rev. William Gardner,
pastor Of the First Presbyterian church,
to her wooer who had got the license
in readiness for the event.
Last June Mrs. Sullivan was near
Ing the end of a short term in jail
for intoxioat1on and disturbing the
peace. She occupied a pleasant cell
overlooking the Jail yard Directly
across the yard was a boarding house
In which lived Isaac Dillon.
AS Mrs. Sullivan between the bars
of her open window drank In copious
draughts of the balmy air Of early
summer Isaac Dillon, resting at his
own window from the toll of the day,
saw her. What of the woman he
could see through the barred window
pleased him and he made a motion of
his hand to attract her attention. She
responded instantly and the resulting
| pantomime pleased him still further.
| currence. Dillon visited the jail,
| learned the name of the woman and
wrote her a letter. She answered.
! Then he visited her in the reception
room of the jail They found, to their
| astonishment, that they had known
each other ten years before when their
parents were neighbors in Cleveland,
Ohio.
They agreed that when her Jail term
expired they would be married Dillon
| paid the fine of the woman and the
costs of her case and thus reduced the
period of her confinement. On Satur-
day, six months ago, Mrs. Sullivan was
released The following Tuesday was
set for the wedding day.
1t was here that Dillon made the
mistake which caused him much sub
sequent trouble. He allowed Mrs. Sui
| livan too much time between her re-
| lease from Jail and her marriage. Mrs.
Sullivan was very happy that Sunday.
Everything conspired to make her so.
She celebrated and when the day end
| ed she was again in Jail charged with
disturbing the peace.
| Mrs. Sullivan "got" six months.
| Then the courtship through the mails
and between the bars was resumed.
Edward Underwood, an honorably
discharged Philippine soldier, in Sep
tember became a resident of the Belle
vile Jail because he discharged his
revolver through the window of the
| car in which he was riding toward
ST. Louis and interrupted Dillon's love-
making. Underwood carried the VIC
tuals which Mrs Sullivan had helped
to prepare, from the kitchen to the
cell rooms and an apparent fondness
sprung up between them. When I'm
| derwood was released he tried to buy
| the freedom of Mrs. Sullivan with the
pension that had become his during
his confinement. Failing in this he
vanished.
But the love OF Isaac Dillon never
wavered. Taught a lesson by his pre-
vious failure he had everything in
readiness, including snug home on
South Church street. for the day when
Mrs. Sullivan was released.
Tuesday before she stepped out of
the jail she became Mrs. Isaac Dillon.