Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1889 — Wedded in the Penitentiary. [ARTICLE]

Wedded in the Penitentiary.

For the first time in its history a wedding ceremony was performed in the penitentiary yesterday. The parties were John Danise and Anna Kelly, who came from Amsterdam to serve a term of six months for an assault on each other while living together as man and wife. They have been in the institution only one month, but it being ascertained that Anna was about to become a mother, it was on the advice of Chaplain Anselm Auling that the man and woman consented to marry. The ceremony took place in the guardroom off the main hall, and was performed by Chaplain Auling. Supt. Mclntyre gave the bride away. Matrou Birmingham attended the bride, and Clerk Bowers the groom. At the close of the ceremony the husband and wife were reconducted back to their respective cells. —Albany Journal.