SINGULAR SCENE AT A WEDDING AT DEVONPORT.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4589, 19 September 1883, Page 2

SINGULAR SCENE AT A WEDDING AT DEVONPORT.

A wedding was solemnised on Sunday morning at St. Paul's Church, Morieesquare, Devonporfc, between a naval pensioner named Charles Williams, a grocer and beershop-keeper, in Morice street, and a woman named Callis. It appears that a month since the wife of Williams died, and about a week after he quarrel led with his daughter, who left the house. She is married, and has three children. On the neighbors hearing of this, and also of his proposed marriage with Callis so soon after his wife's decease, they determined to show their disapprobation by publicly insulting him at the wedding The banns having been applied for, the Rev. E. Kesd, the vicar, fear* ! ing tb,at some unseemly proceedings I might take place within the church, applied to the police station that the strong arm of law might be exercised to preserve the peace. Accordingly, policemen were on the scene to await results. The bride and bridegroom, accompanied, by. the best man and a bridesmaid, drove to the church about half«pa§t eight in a e^b, followed by an excited crowd, who hissed and yelled at the bridal party, who managed to enter the church, where the ceremony was proceeded with. Daring the celebration the door of the sacred edifice was closed, which was the signal for a fresh outburst of indignation. As the presumably happy Gpqple left the church they received a similar greeting, and as (he cabxaan whipped up bis horse to drive to the house, which is situated near the church, the crowd followed. The bridegroom then alighted and while in the act of holding out his hand to assisjf t|(e bride, the crowd set up such a yell that th^e horse attached to the cab ran, a.way with, the occupants, leaving" Williams gazing after them in blank astonishment. The horse, however, was brought to a standstill, and the three occupants got out none the worse for the event. The party managed to get into the house, when the police succeeded in clearing the xaob.