Bridegroom Robbed by has Bride.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 12, 6 February 1906, Page 3

Bridegroom Robbed by has Bride.

—o—£Boo Stolen After the Wedding Dinner. M. Binet, of Paris, has just met with an experience which he is likely to remember for the remainder of his life. He recently made the acquaintance of a young woman, aged about 22, with whom he became so infatuated that he begged her to become his wife, The marriage ceremony took place recently, and the wedding dinner was given a weil-knuwu Paris restaurant. The bride looked charming in her white robe of innocence and orange blossom. After the dinner came the ball, and then M. Binet took his bride home. She removed her white veil and herorange blossom, and then suddenly became deathly pale, and leaning against a sideboard gasped, “ A doctor, a doctor.” The horrified bridegroom rushed out to fetch a doctor, and in less than a quarter of an hour came rushing back with him in a cab. When they got up to the room there were no signs of the bride, though her wedding gown lay on the bed. She had gone, and had taken with her the sum of £BOO which M. Binet had put away in his escritoire. The infuriated bridegroom immediate! v went With tne doctor to inform the local police magistrate of his adventure, and learned to his astonishment that as be had married the lady he could not take any proceedings against her, as, according to French law, a husband cannot charge his wife with any criminal offence. “ The only thing you can do,” said the magistrate, “is to take proceedings to force your wife to return to her conjugal duty. ’ And with this sorry consolation the bridegroom returned to his solitary home.