The Ardent Gun-girl
MISS ELEANOR SHOUN, aged 28, of Los Angeles, spent a night in a prison hospital after she had attempted to march her sweetheart, at the point of a pistol, to the courthouse to get married. Miss Shoun was arrested when police saw her marching Howard Pcpr. a railway mail clerk, down the street. Peer told police that she pointed the gun at him in his room and said: "You and I are going to the marriage license bureau and get hitched." Miss Shoun went to the hospital because she injured herself by jumping from a window after her arrest. She was charged with armed assault.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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