KIDNAPPEO AND WED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 10 December 1906, Page 4

KIDNAPPEO AND WED.

An amu-ing abduction occurred recently at Huntingue, on the SwissGerman frontier, near Bale, where a wealthy retired merchant, named Felix, was arrested on a charge of carrying off a girl, but was 'liberated as soon as the facts became known to the police. When the lovesick young man told his troublo to iiis uncle the old man upbraided uim for his lack of enterprise, and promised to bring the girl to Huntingue within 48 hours. Hiring a motor car, and taking a couple of men with him. F f ix left for N«uchatel, abduct*. (1 l.c girl from near her home, and ie.urn.td within the allotted time. The marriage took place next d:.y. The gin's parent* have forgivcln their daughter, who was not in the plo;, and everything has ended well It appear- that t!ic old man's nephew, a si:/ young fellow of 23 years, fell in love with a girl while on a visit to Neuchatel, and his sentiments were reciprocated by the girl. The girl's parents, however, refused to allow their daughter to marry, on the ground that 'he was too young.