Bride Vanishes

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 40, 8 July 1914, Page 5

Bride Vanishes

A WELLINGTON SENSATION

NEWLY-WEDDED IirSBAXD LEFT

LAMENTING,

Per Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. An unusual denouement is said t'i have followed a wedding celebrated in Wellington to-daj\ A young lady arrived in town from it distant part of the Dominion a few days ago, and stayed with her relatives at a hotel. The bridegroom and his friends were at another hostelry.

'lt is related that the young lady hail expressed her unwillingness to go to the altar with the gentleman, but the latter's suit was favorably viewed iiv her .parents, and. rather than disappoint them, she dosided to !lo on with tlrn ceremony at the church. There was a fashionable attendance of friends ami 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-car to the groom's hotel, consternation was caused by the discovery that tbe lady was missing. Search was made, but, iike Genevieve of old, the bride seemed to have vanished completely. Subsequently it was said that a motorcar had been seen dashing away from the hotel with the bride and someone else, believed to be a. male Telativc, in it. The supposition is that the lady, though unable to muster up courage to declare the wedding "off" before" the event, had sought her relative's aid to escape afterwards, leaving the groom lamenting and the wedding guests dumbfounded.

The movements of the runaway car an- wrapped in mystery.