PRACTICAL JOKERS BAFFLED.
'AMUSING SCENE AFTER A [ WEDDING. " ; CHICAGO, Nov. ,26. , Practical joking afc fashionable weddings lias recently become, so common that by many bridal couples the marriage [ ceremony is awaited with. 'positive terror. , A striking innovation was introduced \ yesterday at* the' wedding of ]\lr Quter . Pentz, the son of a. New York millionaire. I Several friends had arranged tluat a car- [ riage shquld be filled with confetti, rice, old shoes, and wliite ribbons, and should follow the bridal couple to the leading . hotel. '*■ They had bribed the waiters to , sei-ve the entire collection when the couple '. took dinner m the public dining-room. . The bridegroom, . however, anticipating ' trouble, hud hired six bi-awny men as a bodyguard, and wlien the jokers attempt- ,, ed to follow after the wedding the guards ; seized the horses of the «in;iage. The . occupants, believing that they were be- , 'ing att*icketl by thieves, jumped out, and t a free figlit followed . Wlien the police appeared the situation r was explained, aiid the crestfallen. jokers hastily retired. ' . ' ,-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9642, 17 January 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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