Mrs Bernice E Stangland: Jail & Prison at Age 17

Bernice Washburn was born about 1903 in Detroit, MI. She married Martin Stangland in Seattle, WA on 14 Jan 1918.

Inmate: #864 Berkeley, CA Jail
Arrested: 25 Apr 1919
Crime:Lookout for husband as he was committing burglary.

Inmate: #860 Berkeley, CA Jail
Arrested: 23 Apr 1919
Crime: Burglary

Inmate: #33723 San Quentin Prison

Rec: 5 May 1920

Crime: Forgery

Age: 17

I found these newspaper clippings


https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41781237/bernice_e_stangland/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41781426/bernice_e_stangland/

Ernest Martin Stangland
Born:11 May 1896 in Montevideo, Minnesota 
He had several alias:
Martin Williams
Martin Lovejoy
Martin Stanley
Ingwald M Staugland
He was sent to McNeil Island a Federal Prison on an Island off the coast of Washington.

Inmate: #4500 McNeil Island 
Rec: 15 Apr 1923
Crime: Dyer Act (He stole a car)

I found a newspaper article, seems his brother William was arrested by mistake the police thought he was Martin.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41824477/martin_stangland/

I know this is hard to read so the link for it is below.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41824256/martin_stangland/

Martin's parents were John Stangland (1869-1951) & Martha O Olson (1869-1944), his siblings were.

Barnard O Stangland
1891–
Samuel Oliver Stangland
1894–1963
Reuben J Stangland
1899–1978
William Stangland
1903–1970
James Miller Stangland

1910–1993

Martin died: 14 Dec 1958 in Seattle, King, Washington.

Bernice is a mystery, I found her maiden from the marriage record but I didn't find anything else. What amazes me is there were no other trees for Martin and his family, I made them one. The newspapers gave lots of details but, I feel Bernice lied, she told the paper she was married in Medford, OR and she wasn't, Maybe she wasn't born in Detroit either and maybe Washburn isn't even her maiden name. Someday these skeletons will peak their heads out of the closet and then we will know who she was and who she had become.