Hoodoo Defied By Couple Who Marry on Friday, 13th Elopement Results in Wedding Ceremony with Unique Accompaniments Chicago, March 15. Friday the 13th had no terrors for Maizie Catherine Stuart and Louis Allan Conrad as a bridal day, according to facts just made known. They made up their minds in the afternoon to have the knot tied, and in the evening they were husband and wife. Relatives of both objected strenuously, and so the pair eloped. Superstition was defied at every hand in the romance. The first objection was the day of the wedding, but it was overruled at once by the bride. Then an attempt was made to find Judge McEwen to perform the ceremony. After an hour’s search he was found at a dinner at the Thirteen Club at a down-town restaurant. On entering the room where the dinner was in progress, the couple had to walk beneath a ladder. Salt was spilled over the floor and mirrors were shattered on the walls. The first course was just being served when the couple appeared. The officials of the club induced them to have the ceremony performed in the room. Judge McEwen, standing at one end of the room, solemnized the marriage underneath an open umbrella, and as soon as the ceremony was performed, dishes were dropped on the floor, cow-bells rattled, and a piece of sheet iron was shaken as thunder. Mr. Conrad is a broker. His parents live at Winchester, Va., San Diego [CA] Union 16 March 1908: p. 1 NOTE: Judge Willard Milton McEwen, of the Superior Court of Cook County, was First Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney on the Adolph Luetgart murder case in 1898. The prosecutor of the high-profile case of a husband who murdered his wife, then dissolved her body in acid was the ideal choice to preside over a hoodoo wedding.
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