LOST GIRL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 7

LOST GIRL.

"GOING TO MARRY."

'PHONE CALL TO FRIEND. APPOINTMENT NOT KEPT. (Special.—By Air Mall.) BRIGHTON, September 3. A 19 year-old orphan girl, reported to the police as missing, telephoned a friend in Brighton that she was going to marry at the American Embassy in London a man she met at a dance on the Palace Pier. She added that they would be sailing for the United States in a few days. The missing girl is Joan Armstrong, who lives with her aunt, Mrs. Violet Armstrong, in Devonshire Place here. Mrs. Armstrong went to Brighton Register Office and announced that she refused to give her consent to the ceremony. The friend to whom Miss Armstrong telephoned, Miss Connie Clair, said she went with Joan to a dance on the Palace pier. During an "Excuse-me" dance a young man who gave his name as "Stuart" took Joan from her partner and danced with her for the rest of the evening. "He said he was an American," said Miss Clair, "but he did not have any accent. I did not see Joan again. Then I heard that she had disappeared. i "This morning she 'phoned me and iasked me to go to London to see Stuart land her. She would not sav where thev were staying. "I told her I could not get away and ] asked them to come down to Brighton, i Then a man's voice cut in and said they : would meet me at Brighton station. "I waited at the station with Mrs. ' Armstrong, but there was no sign of 'Joan or the man."