POLICEMAN'S ROMANCE.
FOILED BY FATHER AND LAW. LONDON, February 2. A father's discovery of a rope hanging from his daughter's bedroom window, preparatory to her elopement with a police constable, who is 23 years of age, was described at Richmond (Surrey) Police Court. Joan Undroll, who is IS, applied for consent to marry the constable. Her father said he found his daughter had left a -shorthand school in order to go out with the policeman, who encouraged her to stay out late. When her plan of elopement was discovered he found I his daughter had made up a parcel of i clothes in readiness for flight. Ho opposed the application on the ground that the policeman was receiving only £4 a week, and could not afford to buy i a house.
The policeman replied that he had been saving for six months, and hoped for advancement in the force. The girl's parents never allowed him to thenhouse, lie complained.
The application was adjourned fur a month to permit of the girl's reconciliation with her pa>sJM-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1934, Page 7
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