Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-13
A SIX MONTHS OLD BABY.
IT SUCCESSFULLY STOPS A WE'D
DING LAST WEEK.
A Young Railroad Man Who Was to Have
Been Married on Thursday is Still Sim
gle-A Sensational Incident.

There is minister who expected last
Thursday afternoon to get good mar
riage fee, and we'll known railroad
clerk expected to get beautiful young
West End girl for bride, and all three
were disappointed.
The ceremony was set for O'Clock, at
the minister's house. The bride to be
had wished to be married in church and
have reporter and all the other sur
roundings of such affairs so dear to
young women. But the young man
had many objections to public
wedding. "We will go to DIR. IS
study at 2 o'clock, and then take the
train for Redondo Beach, and from
there take the steamer for the north,
and be off on our wedding trip before
people know we are married." he said,
and at last the girls objections were
overcome, and quiet wedding was
agreed upon.
AT the time agreed upon the bridal
party, consisting of the bride, her
mother and brother, the groom, and a
brother railroad clerk as best man,
drove up to Rev. DR.. IS study and
walked in, announcing themselves as
ready for the ceremony. The pretty
bride was radiant; she was so much in
love that she could not conceal her ad-
miration for her handsome fiance, and
in fact did not try to disguise her feel
ings.
The groom did not appear very much
at ease. He looked troubled, and he
what the photographers call ia pleasant
ccio hie,h ho, foo
The preliminaries were all arranged,
the party took their positions, DIR. =
had begun the ceremony, when the
door to the room opened quickly, tall
handsome girl dressed in sombre black
and carrying in her arms a baby about
six months old entered, and walking up
to the groom, said
"Dick, have brought your child to
see the ceremony which dishonors him
and his mother"
There was then few moments of a
remarkably painful silence, broken once
or twice by the soft cooling of the baby,
whose blue eyes gazed placidly at the
people around, smiling little as if the
affair was something gotten up entirely
for its amusement.
The bride, who was yet not bride,
turned white, scared face towards her
lover, and saw on his face the confession
of his guilt, and fell senseless to the
floor, cutting her head severely by
striking it on the edge of chair. When
her mother and brother lifted her up,
the blood from the cut had stained all
her dainty fnerv, which she had so hap
PLY adjusted short time before. They
carried her to the carriage and without
word to the others drove home.
The young man looked stunned, and
sank helpless into a chair. The girl
with the baby was the most self-pos
sessed person in the room.
lis this girls story true?" sternly
queried DR..
The young man nodded an affirmative
response.
''Then you should marry her, and dt
your best to protect this innocent chilt
from shame," said the minister.
"Marry him I'd die before 1 would
marry that cur" SAID the girl, he liet
to me and 1 shall always suffer for it
but would not marry him to save hi
life, and turning she walked out.
The young man sat in the chair 6
picture of misery. His friend and the
minister walked about uneasily. At las
the friend tapped the young fellow OF
the shoulder, he got up, and they wen
out.
The minister told the story to HER
AID reporter yesterday, and added tina
this was the second occurrence of tn,
kind which had happened in his pres
ence within the year.
The girl who was to have been married
went to San Francisco on Saturday with
her mother, and the young man was th'
same day at his desk as if nothing hat
happened. The girl and the baby? Nc
one seems to know what has become O
them.