MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE DRAMA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE DRAMA.

Because the bridegroom forgot the time ; when the registrar's office closed a wedding party was compelled to wait live hours for ' the ceremony to be performed, and it took : place at midnight. A young man of . Musselburgh, Donald Hyde, had arranged ■ to be married at Portobello at 7 p.m. to Miss Alice Campbell, but when the minister asked for the marriage schedule it was not forthcoming—and the registrar's ollice was closed. A telephone message to his home at Blackhall produced the reply that he was out, and the bri;lal couple had to wait until he returned. The minutes slipped by, and everybody was getting more and more anxious, 'when the . registrar returned home. The situation being explained to him, he rushed off to bis Portobello office, and was able to deljver the marriage schedule just a few minutes before midnight. HER LOST FROCK. Mrs. Dorothy Jay, an actress, of Oxford Street, London, was dining with her husband iu a West End restaurant when she saw a woman at the next table wearing one of her dresses. She spoke to the woman, "who said she bought the dress from a Taunton (Somerset) woman. Mr. Jay told the police, and later the woman and her companion were arrested. This incident had a sequel at Marlborough Street Police Court, when Florence Hudson, aged '23, waitress, and Peggy O'Gara, aged 21, shop assistant, both of Stephen Street, Tottenham Court Koad, were charged with stealing and receiving the dress, worth £4 4/. Mrs. Jay said that Hudson was employed as her maid when she lost the dress. Hudson said she lent O'Gara the dress. She did not tell her it was stolen. O'Gara was discharged, and Hudson was bound over. HE ERRED. This is not an extract from a film scenario—it happens to be a true story concerning Walter Morgan, who is 24 (and j lives iii Liverpool), and Kathleen Me- ' Car til j", of Cosgrave Road, Walton. Kath-j leen was standing in a tramcar. Walter' gave her his seat, and began to talk. Kathleen confessed she was going to the pic- <■ tures, but her boy had not turned up. Walter said, " I'll take you to the pic- ! tures/ and persuaded lier to accompauy; him. After the show, Walter tried to put the he-man 6tuff over, just as the film 1 hero had done. But Kathleen had no desire to kiss or be kissed—by Walter. She said, " No." Angered, Walter said. All right. 11l take this handbag, and you won't get it back." He was wrong again, for later he was arrested, and the climax was rehearsed at Liverpool Police Court. Walter begins a two months' rest: from tram cars, pictures, and women. He is serving a term of hard labour. Silly Walter. I j ! A HUMAN TORCH. Hearing a girl's screams next door, Mrs. Clara Elisa Ellison, of Princes Park, Liverpool, dashed into the back garden and called out. She got no reply, but the screams continued, and, climbing a ladder,! she looked over the wafl. The screams of agony were coming from a human'torch in the next garden, Miss Emma Holland Tattersall, 20, a servant girl, of Davies ; Street, Widnes, whose clothing was on fire. ,The girl had been cleaning the kit- ■ chen grate in the house where she was 1 employed when her apron caught fire, and ! she was unable to undo the knot that tied it. The etory of the girl's terrible fate was told at the inquest, when a verdict of death by misadventure was returned. Mrs. i Ellison said that when she looked over the wall the screaming girl asked her what she should do. " I told her to roll on the grass," said Mrs. Ellison; " then I ran for blankets and towels, climbed over the wall, and smothered the flames. The girl's. clothes were completely burnt off." I