FROM CELL TO ALTAR

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 284, 10 December 1934, Page 2

FROM CELL TO ALTAR

YOUNG MAN ARRESTED ON WEDDING EVE LONDON, October 20. A man remanded on a charge of housebreaking was taken from a cell at Preston (Lancs.) Police Station to be married. Throughout the ceremony a detective stood beside him. Then, after a tearful parting with his youns wife, the man went back to his cell. His wife, a sixteen-year-old mill girl,, went ■ back to her parents’ home. To-day she : s working at her bench again. William Henry Moore, aged twentyfour. of Preston, was the bridegroom. Wedding Eve Arrest When he was charged with the housebreaking offence he was asked if he objected to a remand. "I was to be married this morning” h<» replied. Thus it w as revealed that he had been arrested on his wedding eve. hut while ordering the remand in custody the magistrates directed that he shouM be released temporarily for the wedding. Slo he and the detective went to the church and "were joined by the best man ten minutes before the ceremony started. The bride arrived accompanied by the mother of the best roan. A big crowd gathered outside the church, hut the bride and bridegroom, with their arms round each other’s waists, slipped out at. n side door and ran across the road into the bride’s house. The detective left them alone for a few minutes before taking Moore back to the police station.