DESERTED BRIDEGROOM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 9

DESERTED BRIDEGROOM.

FLIGHT OF THE BRIDE

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, last night. An unusual denouement is said to have followed a wedding celebrated m Wellington to-day. A young lady arrived iti town from a distant part of the Dominion a few days ago and stayed with her relatives at a. hotel. The bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry. It is related that the young lady had expressed unwillingness to go to tflfe altar with the gentleman, but the hitter's suit was favorably viewed 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 m a motor ear to the yroom's hotel, consternation was caused by the discovery that the lady was missing. A search was made, but, like Genevieve of old, the bride seemed to have vanished completely. Subsequently, ,it was said, a motor car had been seen dashing away from the hotel with the bride and someone, believed to be a male relative, m it. Th© supposition is that the lady, though uitable to muster up courage to declare the wedding "off" before the event, had sought to escape afterwards, leaving the groom lamenting, nnd the wedding guests dumbfounded. The movements of the runaway car are wrapped m mystery.