An Interrupted Wedding.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 338, 30 January 1889, Page 3

An Interrupted Wedding.

A very singular robbery of a suite of furniture Occurred in the suburb of Fitzroy on the night of December 30th. Mr George Justz discovered that his fuYniture, valued afc £50 r had been stolen from his front room during the night, the windows having been prised open with a chisel or jemmy. The furniture was afterwards fo\md in a second-hand broker's shop, who said he had purchased it for £13 from a man giving the' name of Mathews. The broker being shown some photographs by the police. recognised . one "of them as • Mathews, and Mr jj.uabz' boing shown it, to his 'intense "surprise, found that 'it was the photo of a cousin- oL his name,d Carpenter, who had' been at his house on the very night during which < the burglary was _ committed, and\ stated that he was to [he married that day (New Year's Day). Constable Cameron j was told off to effect the "arrest; and he did this at .the residence of the mother of accused,, as he was making preparations for his- marriage. Carpenter admitted the offence, and stated that he removed the 'furniture fit intervals jn a wheelbarrow. This statement, of course, is not believed by the police', as the articles of '.'furniture^'were very heavy, and it would have been an impossibility for anyone to remove , them in a wheelbarrow, to • say nothing of the suspicion that such' a proceeding would arouse., Meanwhile) the intended bride had beon busy making her toilet to receive her future spouse at the altar. T4ie intelligence reached irer brpther and he broke 'it jco^ nep. Sh'p refused tp credit, ; ijb, and insisted on going to the watchhouse.^ This she ,did in 'company of her brother. " On seeing her intended husband in tho cell and a prisoner, she .uttered a .piercing- shriek and fainted. She was then removed, in a hysterical condition to 'herhome.' } The greatest* consternation ancr , surprise' 'were 'occasioned ' hy ' Carpenter's action'; many of his* relations stowtly £e-' fused to believe* tlie adcusation' until" ttiey visited Fitzroy "watchh'ouse arid saw Jfor th'emselvep ihafc it was true:; k The accused' has Kitbert'p*- borne . an _* ' irreproachable - character, and <was always'lobked upon,' aY •-a hard "Woi'lung.-sjb'ea'dy young' man." % '