Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-25 | Page 5 | WPA Woman Employe and Billings Marry

T Romance Began 15 Yean Ago ! r J .;. , : ! , 7, 1 ; ):V! (v' J fc, '.:' HAPPY, BUT WOULD ISSUE NO STATEMENTS Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Billings WPA Woman Employe And Billings Marry BFNn, Kev, March 24 (UP) -Wsxrsa K- Billings, the -"forgotten man" of the Mooney-Billings case, and Miss Josephine Rudolph, a' W P A worker, were married here Monday in the chambers of District Judge B. T. Curler. Their marriage followed a romance ro-mance which began while Billings wss serving a life term in Folsom prison and Miss Rudolph began corresponding with him. Four or five friends, who refused re-fused to identify themselves, witnessed wit-nessed the ceremony, which wss performed here because there was some doubt whether the terms of Billings' release from a life sentence sen-tence In prison permitted his marrying in California. Banned la California Attorneys advised the former Folsom prison wstchmsker that it would be all right for him to marry outside of California. Billings gsve his ags as 45 and his home as San Francisco and Miss Rudolph said she wss 43 and she lived In Sen Mateo in applying apply-ing for the license, which was issued is-sued about 30 minutes before the wedding ceremony. They refused to mske any statements. Billings, who served 23 years of a life sentence in connection with the 1918 bombing which killed 10 person In Ssn Francisco, was freed from prison last October 17 on a communtation of sentence Issued by Governor Culbert Olson. Dioeleoes Bosnaawe As be stepped through the prison gates. Billings disclosed the romance ro-mance with Mia Rudolph, with whom he had been corresponding and playing chess gamsa by mall for more than 15 years of Ms confinement con-finement He said they would be married as soon as he established himself in business as a watchmaker and repair man. He set up the business busi-ness sooa after January 1. Billings said he wanted to be married In California If possible, but a the delay extended to weeks, he and Mias Rudolph came here for the ceremony which climaxed cli-maxed their long romance.