A WELLINGTON SENSATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 65, 8 July 1914, Page 6

A WELLINGTON SENSATION

HUSBAND LEFT LAMENTING.

[PIB PttESS ABiOCIATION.I Wellington, July 7. An unusual denouement is said to have followed a wedding celobrated m Wellington to-day. A youn K lady arrived iii town from a distant part o the Doininion a few days ago, and staved with her relatives at a hotel. The bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry. It is related that the young lady ad expressed her unwillingness to ■go' r > the altar with the gentleman, hut he fitter's suit was favorably viewed hv her parents, and, rather than disappoint them, she decided to go on with the ceremony at the cnmvh. There was a fashionable attendance of friends and relatives of the couple, including some prominent personages, one of whom gave the bride away. . All apparently was going well, hut a little later, after, the bride had driven in a motor ear to the troom i« hotel, consternation was caused by.the discovery that the lady was missing. Search was made. hut,, like Genevieve of old, the bride seemed to have vanished' completely. it was said that a motor car had been seen drilling awny from the hotel with the bride and someone else, believed to be a male illative, in it: The supposition is that the lady though unable to muster up courage to declare the wedding "off Vfore the event, had sought her relative's aid to escape afterwards, leavi,:<>- the groom lamenting and the wedtiing guests dumbfounded. The movements of the runaway car wrapped in mystery..