A 'Frisco Romance.
The San Francisco .correspondent of the Auckland Herald tells the following' furious story :— " A young lady having two loveiw accepted both, to marry whom 1 she nanied a certain day last week. As will be seen, she was a ' terrible- and \inscrupulous iiirly and, having got ihtp the' l; ine'ss, l resolved iu her own nmid J t'6 : rake*th'e first who came. So; wh'iin .>o.^ 1 arrived sti'e explaned the tiifnciilty, and in a trice a carriage was called,' in which they* di*ove off to a minister. As they were driviug away, No, 2 turned "up, and divining how matters .stood, ptUil his cab tn an a largo sum td ' whip lip h is* ' horses, arid overtake the pair; '■ whiff/ seeing theinselved pursued, hit™ upon a plan. In passing a police' iVation, No.' 1 got out, . said the man behind him was about to take his life, and swore out a warrant against him ; so, when No. 2 galloped np, the police stopped and took; hidi into custody, which enabled thje pair to get 'married, whereupon NoJ'lwan the rieict morning released, as there was no pue to. prosecute. • ' ::'-■'■.'.:■ .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 96, 19 March 1884, Page 2
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191A 'Frisco Romance. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 96, 19 March 1884, Page 2
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