1:20:02
That's not enough.
1:20:04
I want the front page. We're ready now
for the next step of our campaign.
1:20:09
- You got another idea?
- Yes, and it's dynamite.
1:20:12
I came across it in an old law book.
1:20:15
Stell, you can save my neck.
1:20:17
How? Bob, you know I'd do anything.
1:20:20
Now, listen, how would you
like to marry me?
1:20:30
Let me understand you, now. Are you
trying to tell me that you married a man
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serving a life term in solitary
at Leavenworth penitentiary?
1:20:39
Yes, sir. Yesterday.
1:20:41
And where did the ceremony take place?
1:20:44
At the penitentiary.
1:20:47
By the prison chaplain, no doubt?
1:20:50
No, sir. It was a civil ceremony.
1:20:55
Well, go ahead. I've listened this far.
1:20:58
Well, you see...
1:21:00
Yes?
1:21:02
You see, under the laws of the Treaty
of Paris and the Louisiana Purchase,
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all a man and woman had to do to be
legally married was to sign a declaration.
1:21:11
You see, Leavenworth
is still federal property
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and is therefore immune to
the laws of the state of Kansas.
1:21:21
It's all here, sir, if you want to read it.
1:21:30
Stroud got his front page - and with
a bang heard all the way to Washington.
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Result: one of the strangest
conferences in prison history.
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The warden's on his way right now.