KIDNAPPED GROOM

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1926, Page 2

KIDNAPPED GROOM

JILTED GIRLS’ REVENGE. The modern girl whose love is spurned finds more solace in revenge than in tears, and she is as ingenious in her vengeance as she is bold and remorseless in giving effect to it. When, for instance, a North of England lover deserted the girl who had worn his engagement ring for three years, to lay his disloyal heart at the feet of a woman whose wealth compensated fox' her lack of youth and beauty, he could little forsee the price he would have to pay fox' his treachery. On hex' wedding day a parcel xyas placed in the bride’s; hands. It contained a handsomely bound volume with the dedication: “To Mrs. ——, in gratitude from rescuing Alice M — from an unhappy fate. ‘Tis better to have loved and lost’!” The explanation of this strange dedication became painfully clear when the bride-tb-be discovered that the volume contained all the letters addressed by hex' lovex - to hex' predecessoi' in liis affection; and hex' indignation can be imagined when she read certain underlined passages of unflattering comment on herself. Of a different character was the retaliation of a Devonshire farmer’s daughtei' on the man who had played hex' false. On the morning of his wedding to hex' supplantei' the bridegroom was waylaid by two of her stalwart brothers on his way to church; he was bound hand and foot, flung into a dog-cart, and carried off to their home. There the unhappy maxi was locked in a barn until the following morning. ■ A short time ago a Scottish girl turned the tables cleverly on her false fiancee. When the young man, who had been engaged to hex’ for some years, deserted hex' in favour of a rival, she brought her battery of charms to bear on his father, with such success that within three months she was standing by his side at the altar. If the son had found hex' undesirable as a wife, she took such good care that he should find hex* less amiable as a stepmother that within a few weeks he had turned his back on his second love and was on his way to Caxfada. Of revenges which combine subtelty with humour it would be difficult.to beat that of Miss Jessie Mclntyre, the 18-year-old daughter of a well-to-do faxqily. A short time ago Miss McIntyre’s fiancee, a young man named Pendleton,’ informed her that he had fallen in love with another girl when he said he intended to marry. Miss Jessie promptly set her wits to work to “get levei.” Having discovered her rival, one Miss Aitken, in a neighbouring town, she had her hair cut short, donned a suit of hex’ brother’s, and sallied forth to make love to her. This she did so effectively that before many weeks had passed’ Miss Aitken had promised her hand to the handsome stranger, and had given the fickle Pendleton his dismissal. ‘ Two days later Miss Aitken, while shopping, met her “fiancee” in a gown of 'the latest fashion. ' Recognition was mutual. There was a violent scene, which ended in the two hex;oihes being led off to the Police Court, where’ Were dismissed ’ with a waiming. ';' ■