A VANISHED BRIDE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12282, 8 July 1914, Page 1

A VANISHED BRIDE.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, July. 7. : An unusual denouement is said to have followed a. wedding celebrated in Wellington to-day. A young lady arrived in town from. a. distant part of ] the Dominion a, few days ago, and stayed with lier relations at a. hotel. The bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry.- .It is related that the young lady had expressed an unwillingness to go to the altar with the gentleman, but the latter's suit was favorably received by her parents, and rather than disappoint them she decided to go on with the ceremony. At the church there was a fashionable attendance of friends and relatives of the couple, including some prominent personages, one of whom gave the. bride away. All apparently was going" well, but a. little later after the bride had driven away in a- motor car to the groom's hotel consternation was paused by the d ls_ coverv that the" lady was missing. Search was made, but, like Genevieve of old, the bride seemed to have vanished completely. Subsequently it was saicl a motor car had beenlfeciL dashing away from the hotel with the bride and someone, believed to be a male relative, in.it. The'supposition, is tliat the lady, though nnable to muster up courage to -declare- the "wedding oft before the event, had sought her relative's aid to escape afterwards, leaving . the groom lamenting, and the wedding guests dumbfounded. The movements of the runaway car are wrapped in mysI tery. . . : ■ .