The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-30
ST. LOUIS SENSATION.
AN AGED REVEREND WEEDS HIS
STENOGRAPHER.
The Groom is Go, and the Bride But
GAS n Result, There is Serious
Trouble in Camp-Courts May Be
Appealed To.

A rather unusual wedding and enc
which is likely to cause a very severe
rupture in the household Of the groom,
took place in Recorder Hobbs office be-
tween and 6 o'clock Thursday after
noon, says the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The contracting parties were Rev. Da..
vid B. Ray, the editor and proprietor OF
the American Baptist Flag, published at
1404 Locust street, and Miss ElY4 Z.
Stockbridge, who for the past three years
has been in his employ in the capacity or
a stenographer. The fact that the groom
has already passed his Goth birthday,
while the bride is said to be only 20, has
caused much comment in the circles
where they are known. Another feature
in connection with the marriage, ard one
which the friends and relatives of the
groom consider should have been reason
enough to keep him from pursuing the
course he did, no matter now .nadIy ne
might have been in love, is the fact that
the death of his first wife occurred less
than three months ago.
The wedding was conducted with the
utmost secrecy, and great care Was e&-
emony was performed by Rev: J. q. l1ar-
dy, a Baptist minister of south ST. Louis
who has recently removed mere from
Underwood. The couple left the city the
same evening for Florida, where LIeir
honeymoon Will be spent
So quietly was the wooing and suose-
quent marriage carried on that not even
the immediate family OF the groom ma. naa
tion, and the first intimaition any u them
had of the step ne had taken was IN an
indirect way yesterday morning. DuElnS
the morning DR.. Hamlin, the manager OF
the ti,e National Baptist Publishing. COM
pany, met Rev. DR.. Hardy, VINO lnIorn llt1
MIN that he had officiated at the WEI
ding of Rev. Ray and his sten0sr4 AZ pre- hs
the THURSDAY before. Scarcely aple 10 pc
~. ~ n.y~a TlT ITaualin went at once
TO D. D. Ray, a son of the. groom, VIZ
this information and asked MIN II ~ W.
true. The son was also tnuiiqslStiI W N
and at once called his brother, frdnh ~
Rav who is the business manager OF t!le
paper edited by his father, ana after ~
nnrfsing him of the report, the three ns.u
consultation, and the result " Tas ,r der
Hohbs' ONCE. where the report was fully
substantiated ~ ,;-l+ cbi,drer,
four boys and four girls all OF Mnoil +b q. e
living, and the youngest is older tpa AN
their present stepmother. Frank NJ ray
and his sister Susie have heretolorS L ISu-.
their home with their father at 4o50 MOT
pnent made by the former last evening,
this step taken by their parent WIN cause
them to hereafter take up their apoue
elsewhere Mr. Ray only spoke LOT MN
self howsver as aS6 aS Ss 1et a MaS vet o been
appraised of her fathers marriage, anu
With the exception of D. D. Ray. the rest
of the children were also in total lS-
norance of the step taken by MN.
Neither of the brothers seemed nlq IV!
disposed to talk about the matter, pu t
both expressed great disapproVal OF t ne
act, and intimated strongly that the WIle
taken by their father would never De re-
ceived by them in the light OF STEP
mother They both asserted that rneS
were wholly upprepared for any sucn
event. Being employed in the same
office, they had. of course, come ant NC
daily contact with the young LADY IN me
course of business, but neither oy Wora
or deed had she or their iafher ever
showed that there was anything between
them more than employer and employee
The abserce of both Mr.. Ray and Miss
Stockbridge from the office on Friday did
not cause the sons of the former any par
ticI,lar surprise, as their father had noti-
fed them a few days before that he in.
tended tc, take trip to Florida soon. and
they supposed that as he had not been
at home the night before he had made
up Ills mind to go in hurry and would
write to them in a day or two. Miss
Stockb ,iuge had also signifed her inten-
ton of going away TO spend the holidays
and they supposed their father had given
her permission and she had gone. Her
home is at Pana, H., where her parents
still reside. and the general impression
around the Office was that she had gone
home on a visit.