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Show WEDDED A ML'KDKKKK. Mrs. George Gould Marries Her llunl.iind'l Mayer. Monti'ELIEK, Vt., April 21. Special. Spec-ial. At the state prison Saturday Mrs. George Gould was married to Sherman J. Caswell, the murderer of her husband. hus-band. Caswell is a prisoner for life, and the strange couple clasped hands through the grated door of his cell, w hile the clergyman pronounced the words that made them man and wife. The story of tho murder and of this marriage are closely close-ly interwoven, for Caswell killed the woman's first husband through jealousy. Caswell went to work as a hired man on the farm of Willard Cutter, near here. Laura was a well developed girl of fifteen, and was tho only child of the Cutters. With this young girl Caswell liecame enamored. The young lady did not seem to be averse to bis attentions, but owing to the strenuous opposition op-position of her parents to a union with Caswell she married George J. Gould. When the couple returned re-turned home, after tho marriage, Caswell Cas-well shot Gould dead. Caswell at once gave himself up. He was tried three week ago and found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Within a week after the murder Mrs. Gould visited him in his cell. Her old love for him seemed to return, and she testified in his In-half at the trial. She has now become his wife, although she will lie able to see him only a few time a year. |