AN EXTRAORDINARY MENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1798, 26 September 1884, Page 2

AN EXTRAORDINARY MENT.

One of the most extraordinary elopements ever :■. recorded, appears in a Liverpool contemporary. The runaways are the only daughter of a clergyman, resident iH South Wales, and a groom who used to be employed in the establishment. The young lady, who is entitled to a large fortune in her own right, is a confirmed and cripple, and had to be wheeVed v in a Bath chair, The groom was her 1 attendant, and is said to be" a young fellow of rather prepossessing appearance." . An affection appears to have sprung up.between him and the young lady, and a few days ago the young man went to Liverpool and hired rooms for himself and his wife at an hotel, informing the landlord that his wife would be there the next day. Tho landlord on the following day was astonished to find his lodger carrying in his arms upstairs what he (the landlord) took to be a child, and placing it in his room. Ho asked what " that" was, aad his visitor said, " Oh, that's my wife," and explained that she, being a cripple, had to be carried. Sho was also carried to the registrar's office, and married to the groom, She was thence conveyed on board an Allan steamer lying in the Mersey, an(y|ie couple are now on their way to ij^Ron,