WEDDING PARTY HOAX
PEER'S. GARDEN SET ON EIRE LONDON, June 4. How the bachelor friends of Lord Kylsanfc's son-in-law set the Thames' afire on the litter's wedding eve is being much ■ discussed at Henley. "* Thirty people arrived in motor-cars at the famous Phyllis Court Club, where the bridegroom-elect was giving a- party on Wednesday evening, and ordered 20 gallons of petrol in buckets from a nearby garage. . u After placarding the walls with iso motor spirit from plundered Russian oilt fields,'' they Started in the direction of the river, where they threw the petrol about and set it on fire. , i The'.flames spread alarmingly, and scorched the roses front the Cromwellian -wall, and also the lawn and chestnut trees. The wall, which was considerably damaged, is of great historic value, < having been built, bv Cromwell's Ironsides to protect the Court from the Royalists. Four prominent Welsh business men, who were among the many who received bogus invitations to the wedding, hurried to the reception, and found that the detectives guarding the presents had been warned by telegram to beware of four suspicious characters from Cardiff. Lord Kylsant is determined thai the perpetrators shall bo found and punished,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 2
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