BRIDAL DRESS AS SHROUD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 30 March 1912, Page 4

BRIDAL DRESS AS SHROUD.

pathetic scene at FUNERAL.

Touching scenes were witnessed at the funeral in Effingham Churchyard of Lydia Tyrrell, the young woman who was shot at Haslemere, and with causing whose death her lover and intended husband, William John Bush, now stands accused. The marriage was to have taken place shortly, but Lydia Tyrrell was not destined to be a “glittering bride” to any husband, Her bridal dress was for her the ceremony of death, and she wore her orange blossoms to the grave. She was to have been an Easter bride, and the marriage was to have taken place at Effingham Church.

There she was buried, and to her sister fell the doleful duty of arraying her in the costume she should have worn at the altar. It was a rich white niuou bridal dress, trimmed with satin, and made in princess style. She wore while silk stockings, and black shoes were on her feet, and on her white brow lay a wreath of orange blossoms.

It had originally been intended that the prospective bridesmaids and guests should have worn the dresses intended for their dead friend’s wedding, but it was too cold for summer clothes, and the idea was abandoned, and they followed in ordinary mourning attire. The intimation that the funeral would take place at Effingham brought 9 great number of visitors to the little Surrey village. The dead bride’s home was near Effingham Junction, and the funeral procession had to traverse a distance of a mile and a half to reach the village churchyard. As the hearse passed along the country 7 road every house had its blinds lowered in sympathetic mourning. The most pathetic figures in the funeral procession and in the village were the father and mother of the bride of death, both of whom were utterly prostrated with grief. The Rev E. F. Bayly officiated, and the scene at the graveside was most solemn and impressive.