BOY OF 17 ELOPES
" SWEET KID." WIDOW OF 27 LONDON, October 9. “ Betty is a sweet kid,” says the seventeen-year-old clerk, Eric Nurthen, ecstatically of his bride, who was a widow, twenty-seven years old. “ Her way is so young when wo .are together that I feel like thirty and she like seventeen.” The couple achieved notoriety by running away and marrying at Gretna Green, but the romance has found the going hard. To-day, when Eric returned to his office he found a dismissal otice He admits that the firm is justified. ?’he boss had heard of the intended elopement and gave Eric four days’ leave, but, ‘on condition that you do nothing silly like eloping or marrying.” Eric promised, but “What else could I do? You cannot tell everybody when you are going to elope.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 15
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135BOY OF 17 ELOPES Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 15
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