Unmindful of the possible wrath of his erstwhile friends who swarmed the superior court room and voiced their woes before a jury of their peers in an effort to undo the mischief he had led them into with his promises of a golden future, Dan Cupid, as pert and saucy as ever, slipped quietly into the courthouse Tuesday afternoon and legally completed the little affair that he recently engineered between Mallie Couch, 22-year-old Durham county negro boy, and Novella Williams, 17, one of Chatham’s ebony-hued damsels.
Marriage license was granted this couple to wed while Cupid smilingly looked on, his deaf ear turned toward superior court where even then many persons were seeking to convince the court that the promises of the bow and arrow boy were not to be taken too seriously.
And Cupid, satisfied in the joining of two more hearts, slipped quietly out of the building, wearing a mischievous smile and with a twinkle in his eye.
From page 3 of the Durham Morning Herald, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1924. Superior Court was focused on divorce cases that day.
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