A BRIDE DISAPPEARS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14339, 8 July 1914, Page 3

A BRIDE DISAPPEARS.

STRANGE AFFAIR AT WELLINGTON. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 7. An unusual denouncement. is _ grid to have followed a- celebrated ■ in Wellington to-day. , ; it " young lady arrived in 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 has ex- - pressed unwillingness rf,6 go to the altar with the gentleman, hut the latter’s suit was favourably viewed by her parents, and rather than,disappoint them, she decided to ,go on with, the; ceremony. At the church there iwas,,:, 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 in a motor car to the groom’s hotel, consternation was caused by the discovery that the lady was missing. Search was made, but, like Genevieve of old) the bride seemed to have vanished completely. Subsequently it was said that a motor car had been seen dashing away from the hotel with the bride and someone (believed to be a male relative) in it The supposition is. that the lady, though unable to muster up courage to declare the wedding "dff” before the event, had sought her relative’s aid to escape afterwards leaving, the groom lamenting : and the wedding guests dumbfounded. The movement of the runaway car are -wrapped in mystery.