INTERRUPTED WEDDING.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 221, 27 October 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

INTERRUPTED WEDDING.

dramatic: scene at bermoxdsey There was n dramatic scene at a l)o - mondscy church on the morning of August 20. After the service r wedding ceremony, conducted by one o* tlie curates, I mil been completed, when, as tin Benediction was pronounced, a respectably dressed woman, who had been present throughout, rose in the body 01 tlie church and denounced the bridegroom as her husband, to the consternation of tlie congregation and the wedding party. Tiie couple were about to leave tor the vestry to sign the register when the incident occurred. There was great excitement among the congregation, t large proportion of whom had (villained alter the conclusion of the ordinary service. An order was at once given to lock the doors, and no one was permitted tn leave the building. .Meanwhile the curate held a conference in tin- vestry, interrogating th ' woman who claimed to lie the true wife ami the bridegroom. As a icsnit ticlergyman decided to '•end ior the police, and a couple of detectives who happened to be in the neighbourhood of the church were call d in