Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-02
No Interruption of the Ceremony Fol-
lows This CHASTITY Discovery, but
the Guests Fly In All Direc-
lions as Soon as the Nup-
A tial Knot Is Tied.

ssThe festivities attendant upon the
wedding of Miss Veronica Moore to
Mr.. Francis jeffrey of this city met
with startling check today. AS most
of our readers know, the long closed
house on Waverley avenue, which for
nearly century has been In the pos
session of the brides family, was open
ed for the occasion at the express wish
of the bride. For week the prepara-
tons for this great function have been
going on. When at an early hour this
morning line OF carriages drew up in
front of the historic mansion and the
bridal party entered under its once
gloomy but now seemingly triumphant
portal. the crowds, which blocked the
street from curb to curb, testified t.
the interest felt by the citizens ct
Washington in this daring attempt to
brave the traditions which have mark
ed this house out as solitary and by Y
scene of joyous festivity make the
past forgotten and restore again to
usefulness the decayed grandeurs of
an earlier time AS Miss Moore Is one
of Washingtons most charming wom-
en- and as this romantic effort natural
~ lent an extraordinary interest to the
ceremony of her marriage, large
number of our representative people
assembled 70 witness 1t, and by high
noon the scene was one of unusual
brilliancy.
Halls which had moldered away In
an unhroken silence for years echoed
again with laughter and palpitated to
the choicest strains of the Marine
band All doors We're open save those
of the library an exception which
added u pleasing excitement to the &C.
casion-and when by chance some of
the more youthful guests We're caught
peering behind the two Corinthian pill
lars guarding these forbidden precincts
the memories thus evoked were mo-
mentary and the shadow soon passed.
'"The wedding had been set for high
noon and as the clock in the drawing
room struck the hour every head was
craned to catch the first glimpse of the
bride coming down the old fashioned
staircase But five minutes, ten min
utes, half hour, passed without this
expectation being gratitied. Tie crowd
above and below were growing rest
less when suddenly a cry was heard
from beyond the gilded pillars framing
the library door, and q young lady was
seen rushing from the forbidden quar-
ter, trembling with dismay and white
with horror 1t was Miss Abbott of
Stratford Circle, who in the interim
Of waiting had allowed her curiosity
to master her dread and by one peep
into the room, which seemed to exer-
else over her the fascination of q Blue
boards chamber, discovered the out
stretched form of man lying sense
less and apparently dead on the edge
of the hearthstone. The terror which
instantly spread among the guests
shows the hold which superstition has
upon all classes of humanity. Hap
PLY, however, an unseemly panic was
ayerted by the necessity which all felt
OF preserving some sort of composure
till the ceremony for which they had
assembled had been performed. for
simultaneously with this discovery Of
death in the library there had come
from above the sound Of the approach
ipg bridal .pxQcessdan. and cries Mere