THE BRIDE VANISHED

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15393, 9 July 1914, Page 4

THE BRIDE VANISHED

■ I AFTER THE CEREMONY. y SEQUEL TO A WELLINGTON WEDDING. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. July's. An unusual denouement is said to 'have followed a wedding celebrated in Wellington- A young lady arrived in town Irom a distant part' of the Dominion a. few days ago and stayed with lier relations at a hotel. 'Hlo bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry. It. is related that the young lady had expressed unwillingness to Co to the altar with tho gentleman, but the latter's suit was favourably viewed by her parents, and rather than disappoint- them she decided to go on with tho ceremony. At the church there was a fashionable attendance of fronds and relatives of the couple, including some prominent personages, one of whom gave the bride away. All apparently was going well, but a Jittlo later, after the bride had been driven in a motor-car to the groom's bote), consternation was caused by tho discovery that the lady was "missing. Search was made, but, like. Genevieve of old, the bride seemed to havo vanished completely. Subsequently itwas said that' a motor-car had been seen dashing away from tho hotel with the bride and someone believed to be a, male relative: ill it. Tho supposition is that the lady., though unable to muster up' courage to declare the wedding •"off" before the event, 'had sough? her relative's aid to escape afterwards, leaving the croom lamenting and the wedding guests dumbfounded. The movements of tlie occupants of the runaway car aro wrapped in mvs_ tery. '