NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1921, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

EX-TRAPPIST WEDS, NEW YORK, Dec. 18

A former Trappist monk, Father Alberic ,now known to the world as Mr James Cornell Riddle, a scion of one of Philadelphia’s oldest and richest families, is the chief figure in a romance which culminated yesterday in his marriage with Miss Mary Lena Gaines, of Warernton, Virginia. The couple are bound to-day for “Paradise,” a fine old Virginian estate belonging to the bride, where they* will make.'their permanent residence. For 30 years the bridegroom lived a life of perpetual silence, seclusion, penitence, and prayer at a Trappist monastery situated on the Broad Knoll, Getlisemane, 48 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky. A year ago lie renounced his vows, having reached the conclusion that the “Protestant or Evangelical form of church government was the primitive form.”

NIGHT FIGHT WITH LEOPARD NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Atacked in the dark by a leopard the lessee of a New York warehouse named Dochtermann has died from his wounds. A night watchman told him that he

feared that an animal (had broken loose in the warehouse, which was serving as a shelter for recruits for the Coney Island menagerie. Dochtermann, an electric torch in hand, entered the warehouse to investigate, and was attacked by the leopard.