Published in the Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) on Thursday, October 18, 1894:
A STRANGE WEDDING
Guarded by a Sheriff, Gay Clark Becomes a Husband Before Going to the Pen.
Sunday morning, at Pendleton, occurred the wedding of Gay Clark and Cora May Saling. Justice Parke performed the ceremony in the county clerk's office at the court-house. The circumstances connected with the case, were they fully set forth, would explain why Gay Clark, who was booked for the penitentiary at Salem, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to this young girl. Clark, besides ruining his own future and leading into the path of the criminal a son of J.K. Saling, of Athena, by name Glenn Saling, also succeeded in causing a daughter, Cora May, to become infatuated with him and the enforced wedding is a result. Nor similar occurrence has been recorded in Umatilla County. Surrounded by the minions of the law, standing within six paces of the jail in which his crimes had caused him to be incarcerated, awaiting transportation to the prison the state provides for those who infract the laws. Gay Clark took into his hand the hand of the girl he had betrayed, while the justice made him her husband. There could be none of those warm congratulations, those wishes for happiness which are given to the young couple who stand before the altar under other circumstances. But in the heart of every one present was pity for the girl and commiseration for the man who had wrecked the lives of himself and his friends.
A STRANGE WEDDING
Guarded by a Sheriff, Gay Clark Becomes a Husband Before Going to the Pen.
Sunday morning, at Pendleton, occurred the wedding of Gay Clark and Cora May Saling. Justice Parke performed the ceremony in the county clerk's office at the court-house. The circumstances connected with the case, were they fully set forth, would explain why Gay Clark, who was booked for the penitentiary at Salem, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to this young girl. Clark, besides ruining his own future and leading into the path of the criminal a son of J.K. Saling, of Athena, by name Glenn Saling, also succeeded in causing a daughter, Cora May, to become infatuated with him and the enforced wedding is a result. Nor similar occurrence has been recorded in Umatilla County. Surrounded by the minions of the law, standing within six paces of the jail in which his crimes had caused him to be incarcerated, awaiting transportation to the prison the state provides for those who infract the laws. Gay Clark took into his hand the hand of the girl he had betrayed, while the justice made him her husband. There could be none of those warm congratulations, those wishes for happiness which are given to the young couple who stand before the altar under other circumstances. But in the heart of every one present was pity for the girl and commiseration for the man who had wrecked the lives of himself and his friends.
Published in the Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) on Thursday, October 18, 1894:
A STRANGE WEDDING
Guarded by a Sheriff, Gay Clark Becomes a Husband Before Going to the Pen.
Sunday morning, at Pendleton, occurred the wedding of Gay Clark and Cora May Saling. Justice Parke performed the ceremony in the county clerk's office at the court-house. The circumstances connected with the case, were they fully set forth, would explain why Gay Clark, who was booked for the penitentiary at Salem, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to this young girl. Clark, besides ruining his own future and leading into the path of the criminal a son of J.K. Saling, of Athena, by name Glenn Saling, also succeeded in causing a daughter, Cora May, to become infatuated with him and the enforced wedding is a result. Nor similar occurrence has been recorded in Umatilla County. Surrounded by the minions of the law, standing within six paces of the jail in which his crimes had caused him to be incarcerated, awaiting transportation to the prison the state provides for those who infract the laws. Gay Clark took into his hand the hand of the girl he had betrayed, while the justice made him her husband. There could be none of those warm congratulations, those wishes for happiness which are given to the young couple who stand before the altar under other circumstances. But in the heart of every one present was pity for the girl and commiseration for the man who had wrecked the lives of himself and his friends.
A STRANGE WEDDING
Guarded by a Sheriff, Gay Clark Becomes a Husband Before Going to the Pen.
Sunday morning, at Pendleton, occurred the wedding of Gay Clark and Cora May Saling. Justice Parke performed the ceremony in the county clerk's office at the court-house. The circumstances connected with the case, were they fully set forth, would explain why Gay Clark, who was booked for the penitentiary at Salem, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to this young girl. Clark, besides ruining his own future and leading into the path of the criminal a son of J.K. Saling, of Athena, by name Glenn Saling, also succeeded in causing a daughter, Cora May, to become infatuated with him and the enforced wedding is a result. Nor similar occurrence has been recorded in Umatilla County. Surrounded by the minions of the law, standing within six paces of the jail in which his crimes had caused him to be incarcerated, awaiting transportation to the prison the state provides for those who infract the laws. Gay Clark took into his hand the hand of the girl he had betrayed, while the justice made him her husband. There could be none of those warm congratulations, those wishes for happiness which are given to the young couple who stand before the altar under other circumstances. But in the heart of every one present was pity for the girl and commiseration for the man who had wrecked the lives of himself and his friends.
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