TROUSSEAU STOLEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2772, 16 August 1924, Page 3

TROUSSEAU STOLEN.

BRIDE’S UNPLEASANT SHOCK

THEFT DURING WEDDING

A mean theft lias just been reported to the Sydney police (wrote the New Zealand Herald correspondent on July 31). While a bride was being married at a church a thief broke into her parents' residence and stole all her clothing, including her trousseau and her wedding presents. The bride was Miss Vera Williams. and she lived with her parents at C’hatswood. Her Imshand, Mr. William Worthington, is an electrical engineer, and caine from Cairns, Queensland, to he married. .Most of the members of (he bridal party dressed ai I lie cottage at. Clmtswood. the last ear to leave containing the bride. It was then live minutes past seven, and the cottage, which is in a quiet, street, was a ‘gift’ for a burglar. The bride’s trousseau, worth intrinsically £l3O. was packed ready in her bedroom. Wedding presents valued at more than Cl DO were displayed in the dining-room and in the other bedrooms were valuable frocks belonging to (lie other ladies of the household, purses containing large amounts of money, watches and chains, left there, by the men when they changed hurriedly—sufficient selection to satisfy the most fastidious bmgjfiY. The wedding at the local church went off without a hitch, and the breakfast, which was held in the Glints wood Ala.-onie TT nil, lasted untill If) p.m., the bride, and bridegroom returning, with the family to take their belongings and repair to a hotel in the city. But they found I lie cottage had been entered bv smashing a window with a imitlock, and that a thief had concentrated on the clothes and effects belonging to Mrs Worthington. Everv stitch of the trousseau was gone, and even the old clothes she had discarded bad been taken. Afnny of the wedding presents, clothing, money and rings were also taken, and Airs Worthington returned L. find tha I the only dress -lie could call her own was the wedding garment. The doors were opon v and the lights switched on, giving* evidence that the thief nmih a hurried exit. Neighbours stated that the lights were turned on about half an hour after the bride left, but they attached no significance to the tact, oi to the frantic barking of llie dog. Burglary was the last thought lo enter their minds.