Source: Bell's Weekly Messenger, No.1819, Sunday, February 6, 1831.
An "untoward event" took place at the altar of our parish church, on Monday morning last, deeply afflictive to the feelings of two young aspirants for the joys of matrimony. A young gentleman, in his 19th year, an officer in a regiment of Light Dragoons, and member of a highly respectable family in this county, was in the act of tying the connubial knot with a frail Cyprian, with whom he had formed a blissful intimacy at Leamington, when the ceremony was suddenly interrupted by the appearance and rude interposition of a police-officer, acting under the parental authority of the gallant's father. Notwithstanding the protestations, supplications, and imprecations of the disappointed pair, he bore off his prisoner to prison; from whence, on Tuesday last, he was, under strong escort, conveyed to his father's house.—Birmingham Journal