MARRIED IN HASTE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2488, 29 April 1909, Page 6

MARRIED IN HASTE.

A YOUNG WIFE VICTIMISED. - LONDON, Feb. 12. “Hang him first and try him afterwards, ’’" used to bo the motto of the Vigi hints of use wild and woolly west; ■ 4 ‘Marry him first and inquire into Iris antecedents later,” seem to be the motto of many girls to-day judging by the numberless cases reported in which women hare been -victimised by piaitsiJjie scoundrels whom they hare married on the briefest possible acquaintance. Last .week there was a smart wedding at St. Albans Cathedral, the bride being Miss Maud Reeves, the daughter or ■a ’well-known local resident, and the . fgroom a igood-looking, bronzed and sol-dierly-looking man, whrse name was entered on the registrar as Frances Frazer Ogilvie. Ogilrie only met his bride a week or two before the wedding, the introduction taking place through a matri- . menial advertisement, in which he described himself as a successful mining engineer. To the lady he represented •himself' as about to take up an appointment in Mexico at £2OOO a year, talked glibly of men eminent in the mining, 'ccieatinc and financial worlds as his friends, and, in short quite carried the yevng iadv’s heart by storm at the-first ieWaidt. She introduced Ogilrie to her. family and the parental citadel fell apparently as easily as the maiden's. The family, indeed, seem to have accepted Maud’s suitor on sight and to hare tafeeh 'him at bis own estimate in every respect. '" . . „ On the pcore of having only a- brier holiday Ogilrie hurried on the wedding, a special license was procured, and po Wednesday last week’ Mr' and Mrs 'Ogilrie were duly united at St. Albans. Cathedral. Then amid the eon'•r.indclatibus of the bride’s family end, •f.pdvJs tliay came to London, on route t

for Mexico. On Thursday Ogilvie took his wife to see the sights of London.and acted the loving husband to perfection. On the morrow he left her at their hotel in order to collect his belongings at his bachelor rooms in Kensington. Mrs Ogilvie'had complained of a cold, and Ogilvie ere leaving, gave her a glass of some milky liquid which resembled amaioniiated tincture of quinine. Ho told her that- it was “an excellent dose for a cold,” and she took it gratefully. The result of the close was a heavy sleep which lasted 'more than twelve hours. When she recovered consciousness it was to find her boxes rifled of money and jewellery and her husband o-one The day passedbanc! her husband did not return' Then she drove to Kensington to the address he had given her. There she learned that Ogilvie had called for his luggage and departed, leaving no address. Inquiry at the Mexican Consulate and of the chief commercial firms doing business with Mexico, failed to find any trace of the missing man. He had ciisappeared as .suddenly as lie came. Forty-eight hours later the distracted bride, who had returned to her parents, received a brief note from Ogilvio stating that lie had been • obliged to go away for a time, and enclosing .pawn tickets relating to her jewellery. The letter ciame from Paris. -Since then Mrs Ogilvie has heard nothing further from her husband, and, judging by the look of things, is not likely to be further troubled by communications from him.