THIEF STOPS A WEDDING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1011, 17 October 1912, Page 4

THIEF STOPS A WEDDING.

BRIDEGROOM ROBBED ON HIS WAY TO CHURCH.

Mile. Marie Rocher, a young and pretty bride, bad a most unpleasant experience last month. She was dressed in the traditional bridal rnbe, veil and wreath of orange vssc'v The equally traditional oiidal arriage, with its pair of prancing horses, was at the ioor. T’> . tidal party Lad assembled at the church. All that was lacking was the bridegroom.

An hour passed. The bride began to grow hysterical, while the distracted father-in-law was telephoning all over Paris to obtain news. After three hours had passed the bride used the bridal carriage to make a tour of the hospitals, the police stations and finally the morgue, but found no trace of the missing bridegroom. In the evening her fiance, M. August Pasquet, turned up at the house of his despairing fiancee, fatigued and dishevelled, but happy. Half an hour before the time fixed for the wedding he had gone to buy a pair ol white gloves. While in the shop he noticed an elegantly dressed woman who was making purchases at the same counter.

When he went to pay for his gloves he found that his pocket book, containing the money he was keeping for his honeymoon—was gone. Not daring tc lace his bride with the disastrous intelligence that their trip to London was “off” be rushed to the Prefecture of Police.

He was able to give such a detailed description of the pickpocket that she was at once recognised at Louise Pimaret. Two detectives were placed at his disposal, and after a day’s hard work they ran her to earth. The bridegroom, to his great joy, recovered his ,£4O, so that the next week M. and Mme, Pasquet were able to go through the marriage ceremony aud take the train for London.