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Show CUPID LEADS HIM A WILD CHASE Following close upon the rather romantic ro-mantic incident of finding a former lover of Kansas Cltv under her bed last week, Miss Bessie Williams, 2370 Grant avenue, was the direct cause of another exciting Incident last evening even-ing when she lost temporary control of her nerve an hour beforo her marriage mar-riage to Jack Sinter, tho Falstaff chef, and caused that Individual to pass a most unquiet hour Slater was dressed for the ceremony cere-mony and the guests had assembled at his sister's home awaiting the bride. The to-be husband hurried to the girl's home to escort her to the wedding placo when, to his horror and chagrin, he found her door locked and a note pinned on the outside which stated that Miss Williams had decided to postpone the marriage for a few days. Visions of the former sweetheart from Kansas City who had been found under the bed and the fact that he had let hla prospective bride have $35 In real money for a trousseau so added to his discomfort that Slater ran straightaway to the police station with a request that the girl be apprehended appre-hended and compelled to give u? either ei-ther the money or the trousseau. I: there wasn't any difference, he would rather have had the money, he said In the meantime some of the wedding wed-ding guests went to Miss Williams' home to investigate the matter and, on entering the houso, were horrified to hear groans from within her bod-chambor bod-chambor In the belief that she had committed suicide, a physician was sent for, but before 1i1b arrival It w? i found that the would-be bride 2iad suf fered an attack of "heart failure." On learning tho tacts Slater returned re-turned to the police station and requested re-quested that the lady-hunt be called off, also that the newspapers bo suppressed sup-pressed In the matter. The last bulletins bul-letins issued regarding tho case are that the wedding will take place within with-in a few days, or when Miss Williams Wil-liams shall have recoverod from her attack of nervousness. It is said that the former swee:-heart swee:-heart of Miss Williams was C. W. Byron of Kansas City and that on his unexpected arrival here he adopted tho rather unusual method of surprising surpris-ing her by crawling under her bed during her absence. The Joke assumed assum-ed a serious attitude, -however, wher. the young lady returned with a revolver' revol-ver' and ordered him out. Even on discovering her identity, Miss Williams Wil-liams did not enthuse over the incident inci-dent to an appreciable extent, but ad-vlBcd ad-vlBcd him to "beat it back to Kansas City" on the grounds that she expected expect-ed to be married In a few days. Byron By-ron obediently departed for the east, being assisted to the station by Slater himself, the latter not caring to takr. any chances with n rival In the field oo |