MOBBING A BRIDAL PARTY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1438, 22 December 1886, Page 3

MOBBING A BRIDAL PARTY.

Not in the wild West ; or amongst the “ children of tho sun,” South or ast ; or even in Kerry where Moonlighters abound, but in London itself, in the Metropolis of modern ci -iiisation, we have the astounding n-ws of a bride subjected to mob violence on her wedding d y When the young lady and her father descended from their carriage at ■ t Anne’s, S iho, a storm of hiss ng was heard, and a quantity of chaff—real, not metaphorical—was thrown over them fht too bride at tinpling to enter the c'uuc'i a man rushed forward, se zed her by the arm, and said to the father, *• Your daughter is go ng to marry the greatest scoundrel upon earth ” In tho melee the bride’s bouquet was crushed, and it was with great difficulty she got into the ch .rch. As the wedding party walked up the aisle, the most disgust ng language was buried at them from all sides, and tho menaces of the congregation were so fierce that they did not dare to Lave the church by the usual way, but came through the dead-house an omen dismal emngh to make any lady feel superatiPons. As it is, the newly-wedded wife has been eoi of d ora since. It might be supposed ] fiom this account that the bridegroom orj the bride had incurred popular die- 1 p easura in the neighbourhood by their cr.ed, race, manners, politics, or religion That, however, woul I to attribute t> the populaca of S ho the in tiaave of the disturbance. Tlte secret of tho demonstration esma out. in the evidence. A man Da vis, a porter. testifie I >hat he was standing at the corner of Frith street with a “ pal of his, who, like himself, wto work, when tbre “ laiieo” came up to him, and one of them atk j d ‘’Will you

do a job for me I ” He asked ‘‘ What ? ’ aud she tvp ia-d, iu expressive if not very elegant la’ guagp, “ There ts a wedding coming off ruac h rn. and I w»nt you to go and kick up jolly row. I y u will do so 1 will give you a shilling n-plece and sited two oe three pot-, of beer.” She also ffered thi m a shilling tt v uy rotten eggs. It will thus be seen that the attack on the brutal p irty was directly due to a pslj conspiracy, ai d no more echoed public ff.elin,-: th-*n the deposition of Prince Alexander rt presented Bulgarian sen'imeat. The bride was a’tackcd both ii side and outside the church, by hired ruffians. The Magistrate at Marlborough rtreet had the persona who organised this outrage before him on Wodnesdry, aud used appropriate language He could not conceive anything much more disgraceful; it wsa a “ cowardly assault,” and in a s<c ed building too. But — *• O lame and impotent conclusion ! ” the defendants were let <lf without fine on paying the costs, and binding themselves over to keep the peace.