Gastonia, March 16—Julia Bradley Frady, 17, of Cramerton, secured an absolute divorce from her husband, Joseph Frady, 48, in Superior Court here on the grounds of desertion. The young wife testified that she was forced into marriage when 13 years old by Frady, then her step father, at Great Falls, S.C. She stated she was threatened without advice of relatives of friends, wedded Frady when he told her the Ku Klux Klan would get them if they did not marry.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, March 17, 1927
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