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Show Couple Killed in Auto Smash Are United In 'Black' Wedding ALBANY, N. Y. A young couple who died in an automobile crash the day their engagement was to have been announced were united at a "black wedding" before they were buried together. Johanne Wohl, 20, of Albany, and Norman Saltzburg, 25, of Utica, were killed. Rabbi Rueben Slonim of Troy performed per-formed the old European ceremony before the double funeral. He said he rad the Hebrew marriage mar-riage writ, omitting references to joy, and placed a ring on the girl's right index finger, as custom dictates. dic-tates. A copy of the writ was put in her casket. , "There was no wine and the ancient an-cient custom of the breaking of a glass was not performed," the rabbi said. He explained that the parents had asked for the "black wedding" and had told him it was their children's last wish. |