A MAD BRIDEGROOM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 13

A MAD BRIDEGROOM.

AI_t_EGED I_r_MA__-CAB_JS BOBBBBT. The Paris correspondent of the -"Dally Telegraph" says :—At Charenton, outside Paris, an unlucky adventure has happened to a young man who was about to be married to a charming girl of that town. The bridegroom-elect, who comes from Pontolse, arrived on a Friday night In Paris, where he bought'a stock of rings, brooches, and bracelets for his fiancee, whom he was to meet on Saturday at the house of her father, where the marriage contract was to be signed, and the preliminaries of the wedding arranged. From Paris the bridegroom-elect went on to Charenton, and as he arrived late there he took a room In a hotel, Instead of going to the house of the fiancee, where he was expected. While at dinner at the hotel tbe foolish young man was fascinated by two gaily dressed females who were eating at a table near his. He entered Into conversation with the couple, and went to a music hall with them. He was seen almost naked in the streets of Charenton neit morning, asking people, in a demented way, to take him to the police station. Then be was guided to the place by a good-natured man, and, so far as could be understood from his Incoherent statements, he had been robbed of all that he possessed. The police superintendent ordered the young man, who has completely lost bis reason, to be clothed and sent to the lunatics' ward of the central station ln Paris, and an Investigation of the alleged robbery was begun. The two women who bad fascinated the unlucky bridegroom-elect from Pontoise were found and locked np. It is alleged that they had stolen from their casual companion SOOOf and the stock of jewellery Intended for his fiancee. All the property, with the exception of a sum of •jOOOf. was found ln the possession of the women. Tbe bride-elect of Charenton has now to look for another suitor. Through the irony of fate and his own folly her demented admirer will probably be sent to the noted lunatic asylum of the town wherein the girl whom he was to marry resides with her parents.