VANISHED ON WEDDING DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2249, 10 March 1921, Page 4

VANISHED ON WEDDING DAY.

AN EARLY MORNING FLIGHT. A bride disappeared from Southampton on what was to have beep her wedding morning, and nothing is now known of her present whereabouts, Unknown to her parents, Miss Palin, a pretty girl of nineteen, of Eastleigh, had become engaged, after a romantic courtship, to Mr >S. \Y. Stirling, a London man. Mr Stirling arrived at Eastleigh the night before the wedding day, putting up at an hotel, and was then introduced to Miss Palin’s father. The following morning the bride left to visit the bridegroom at his hotel. She told her parents that she wished to take her baggage and place it with that of Mr Stirling. What she actually did was to hire a taxi, travel to Southampton, and discharge the chauffeur at the docks railway station. The booking clerks, however, have no recollection of her, so that from the moment she left the taxi all trace of her has been lost. The bridegroom was about to leave his hotel for the church when

he was informed of her disappearance. He returned to London shortly afterwards, without seeing the bride’s parents, who have no idea as to his address.

Little is known in Eastleigh about him, beyond the fact that he lived in London, and held a comfortable appointment.