MYSTERY OF MISSING BRIDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1032, 18 April 1912, Page 4

MYSTERY OF MISSING BRIDE.

Miss Gahrielle Ray, of the Gaiety and Daly’s Theatres, was to have been married to Mr Eric Loder, at Windsor, on the morning ot February 29th. She did not appear at the church ; no satisfactory reason was put forward to explain her absence ; and by the following night she was more talked about than at any time in her musical comedy career. It had beeu arranged that the wedding at St. Edward’s Roman Catholic Church, Windsor, should be a quiet one. Eleven o’clock was the time fixed for the ceremony. At that hour the bridegroom and his best man ; Canon Lougiuotto, who was to officiate ; the guests, the organist, aud the choir—all were in readiness, aud only waited for the bride, who, it was understood, intended to motor down from London.

But an hour passed by—and still there was no biide. Mr Loder waited on patiently in the Canon’s house, and the guests sat wondering in the church —still no bride. Then a telegraph boy went to the Canon’s house, and in some way a rumour went round that Miss Ray was ill, and that there would be no wedding. Mr Loder and his frieud a little later entered their motor car and drove away. The choir were informed that they would be sent for il their services were needed later, the church was locked, and, though the crowd which had gathered outside waited on for two or three hours, no bride arrived to reward their patience, and no explanation was given to account for her nonappearance.

A Daily Express representative who called at Miss Gabrielle Kay’s flat in Coleherne Court, Kensington, late in the afternoon, was informed that Miss Ray was too ill to receive visitors or to make any statement.

Nothing more definite than that was to be learned in any quarter. Mr Coder himself had nothing to say, and the mystery of the missing musical comedy bride had not, when the mail left, yet been fully solved.