HEENEY SECRETLY MARRIED

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3828, 7 August 1928, Page 3

HEENEY SECRETLY MARRIED

Laden Town (N.Y.), August 3. Tom Heeney was married to Miss Marion Dunn, of Port Washington, Long Island, here last night. A Justice of the Peace at Margulies said: “A man who gave his name as Tom Heeney and said that he was a boxer came here with a girl and a license and asked me to marry them. I did, and they left immediately afterwards without saying where they were going.” Someone at Heeney’s late apartment at New York stated that Heeney was now on his way to the coast. Eddie Harvey, a brother of Charles Harvey, Heeney’s American manager, was not informed of the marriage, but said that it was undoubtedly true. “Tom and Miss Dunn have been going together for some time, and a marriage is no surprise to me,” he said. Some mystery lias developed concerning Heeney’s bride. Her home is now reported to be in Spring Valley, New York. A man said to be her father,” and other supposed relatives there, denied that Heeney knew* her.

John Mortimer stated that Heeney wished to marry Miss Dunn before the Tunney fight, but the managers dissuaded him. Mortimer confirmed the marriage, and said, “They met about 18 months ago at a party. They are now motoring to New Jersey.”