Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — Girl Must Remain a Wife. [ARTICLE]

Girl Must Remain a Wife.

Though innocent of any possible degree of crime and without a whisper of accusation against her, Mrs. Wiliam Death, the girl wife of one of the three men who murdered Jennie Bosschieter, found today that she must suffer a cruel penalty under the existing laws of this state. She is doomed to bear her convicted husband's name and to remain his wife during the entire term of his imprisonment. She is only a child in years and a bride of only a few weeks, but the legal authorities of New Jersey hold that imprisonment for crime does not constitute ground for divorce.