Charlotte, Dec. 12—W.L. Silver and Pansy Thacker, principals in a jail romance here in the summer, were sent to jail today to await trial in Superior court on a charge of bigamy. Probable cause was found against both in city court and bond was fixed at $1,000 each, which was not furnished.
Silver and Miss Thacker gained publicity in August when they were married in the county jail after a courtship conducted by Silver, posing as a Christian worker, while the girl was serving a year’s sentence for a statutory offense.
When the girl married, her sentence was remanded and she and Silver left for Richmond, Va., where a few weeks ago Pansy had Silver arrested on a charge of abandonment. At that time it developed that Silver had another living wife.
The girl was arrested at Belmont last week on a charge of bigamy and Silver was brought here from Richmond. In city court this morning he admitted the charge. Miss Thacker denied the charge until the prosecutor produced marriage (records??).
From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Dec. 15, 1924
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