DENOUNCED AT THE ALTAR

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1922, Page 11

DENOUNCED AT THE ALTAR

GIRL'S MOTHER AND MILLIONAIRE. A millionaire bridegroom was denounced at the altar during a wedding at Waterbury (Connecticut) by the mother of the girl he is alleged to have betrayed. The wedding was that of Edward Farrington. described as son of one of the wealthiest men in the State of Connecticut, to Margaret Hodson, daughter of a family equally and socially prominent. In the middle of the marriage service, says the New York American, a woman rose in church, and, pointing at the bridegroom, a young man of 24, cried: “I’ve something to say before this wedding goes on. This man is the father of that child.” As she spoke, a young girl, stated to be the daughter of'the interrupter, rose in the pew alongside her, holding a two-year-old baby boy in her arms. For some moments confusion reigned’in the crowded church. “While this revenge was meant to be visited upon the bridegroom.” the newspaper account continues, “the one reaction among the guests was sympathy for the bride, the real sufferer of the moment. “The ceremony completed, the wedding party marched serenely from the church. However, the strain upon the sensitive high-strung girl was seen in the after results. Halfway through the honeymoon in Canada she was stricken with pneumonia, and has been brought back to her mother.” The young bridegroom denies the parentage of the child, it is added, and had refused to marry the mother.