A BRIDEGROOM'S ESCAPADE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1771, 2 August 1888, Page 4

A BRIDEGROOM'S ESCAPADE.

An extraordinary story comes from Stirling. A new'ymamed couple recently arrived there from Glasgow on their honeymoon, and took up their abode in one of the leading hotels. Two days later the bride went out to post some letters and make inquiries about trains, but never returned. The police were informed, and they searched for him in vain, while the bride’s father came and took her back to bis borne. Some days later, Mr Christie, tho lessee of the shootings surrounding the Abbey Craig, discovered a bed of straw and bushes in a sequestered spot in that locality, which he fancied must be the resting place of a mysterious individual iu evidently necessitous circumstances, whom he had lately met frequently in the neighborhood of the Craig. The next time he met him he charged him with the fact, which he admitted. He turned out to be the missing bridegroom, and he said that for nine nights he had slept in the place referred to, without any covering. He also averred that during the same period he had no food save a buscuit and a bottle of lemonade, which he got at the Wallace Monument. He was very dirty, and a 10s Waterbury watch represented the wholp of his worldly wealth. On being asked by the chief constable of Stirling to explain his conduct, he said that he had won his bride on the strength of his being cashier in the office of a Glasgow sbipbroker, whereas he was

a clerk with a salary of £1 a week. His father-m-law had acted very generously towards him —among other things furnishing a house for the young couple. To keep up the deception the bridegroom had gone to a first-class hotel at Stirling, but being destitute of funds he had slunk off in the manner described A doctor, who examined him, stated his utter disbelief (if the fasting part of the story, and said that the fellow was quite sane, and probably more rogue than fool. He was allowed to return to Glasgow, and one would like to know what kinds of receptions he met with from his bride, her father, and his fellow clerks. Certainly the two former must hare been very confiding persons, to say the least.