Starts solo honeymoon in jail

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.) · July 29, 1946

The day after Mrs. Louise Loehr maxwell, 62-year-old real estate operator, who Is pictured here, was wed to Melville e. maxwell,54, In fond du lac, Wisconsin, she stood in a Sheboygan, Wisconsin, courtroom and heard the judge hand her a "wedding present" of consecutive jail sentences of 1 To 5 years and 1 to 6 years. She will spend her Honeymoon and some subsequent time, husbandless in Jail. Groom Melville e. maxwell, 54, said he knew Of the circumstances in advance, but wanted to "give Her a home to look forward to when she gets out". Sentences were meted out after Mrs. maxwell pleaded "guilty" to charges of obtaining money under false Pretenses in real estate transaction.