WILLOW BIRD'S WHITE BRID E.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 3

WILLOW BIRD'S WHITE BRID E.

SNAKE-DANCING REDSKIN TO WED

AN ENGLISH GIRL.

TheTe is already a public outcry ovier the forthcoming wedding of Willow Bird, one of the Moki snake-dancing Indians from Arizona, now at the Mammoth Fun City at. Oiympia, a>nd Miss Edna Bruce, a young lady with £1200 a year, who has become infatuated' with th© young brave.

The secretary oi th© Mammoth Fun City says the* he had received a number of letters and maoiy visffbal protests regarding the ev«nt.

•'But we cam do nothing," he added. "If the young lady wishes to marry Willow Bird., well, she will marry him, I suppose

We .have pub our foot down upon any public ceremony in the show. Now it is decided that they are going to the Fulham Registry Office on St Valentine's Day, and afterwards the husband will be baptised into the English Church, and a religious ceiremony will be •conducted by the Rev Thomas Home, the showmen's parson.

The Indian and his bride will stay in England two years, and then -will go to Arizona."

-J?he Lobengula-Jewsll marriage and the subsequent events will be recalled to the public mind by the forthcoming wedding, amd on every .hand expressions of strong disapprobation axe being made. Willow Bird is twenty-one yeans old, and the bride a few months his senior.