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Show Conversion and Jail Marriage End Unhappily Bride of Minnesota Prison' Poet Seeks Divorce Because Husband Hus-band Had Been Drunlc and Threatened Her ; i WINONA. Minn, Oct. 13 (By A. P.) Romance faded from the life of Harry Har-ry Feaee, former Winona county "Jail ; pcet,M whtn hie wife, whom he married mar-ried May 22, while serving sentence m the JU here, for the robbery of a boxcar, announce today that she wire "through" with her husband and intended in-tended to commence proceeding's for a divorce. Mrs. Pease, formerly Miss Harriet Stahmann, local seaool teacher, declared de-clared In a signed statement to a lo.l newspaper that Pea,i. r.ad "threatened ny life Mid has been Intoxicated and ha a threatened the livs of my peop . The "Jail poet" declared today that he loved his w lfe. "better than life It-self," It-self," and asserted that she had been "turned against" him by her family and other members of local religious sect. Pease announced at the time of his release from jail September 15. that hej was prepared to abandon a life ofi crime for the career of an evangelist. Last Saturday he pleaded guilty In municipal court to a charge of Intoxication. Intoxi-cation. The complaint was mad by his father-in-law. Peaae'a marriage to Miss fitahmann followed his announcement of "conversion, "conver-sion, as a reeult of religious meetlnge conducted In the Jail on Sundays. He ascribed much of the credit for hia reform re-form to the missionary seal of hia wife. |