RUNAWAY COUPLE

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 94, 16 May 1938, Page 1

RUNAWAY COUPLE

BOY AND GIRL ELOPE. LONDON, April 14. j All the registry offices in the country—6ol of them, Gretna Green • “priests” and polite as well—are on the lookout for a 17-year-old boy and girl who fell in love at school and eloped from Pudsey (Yorks) in a bus. Sydney Cope Levy, the boy, is tall, good looking’, with black wavy hair. He is to study medicine at Leeds University in October. Mavis Jackson, the girl, had been his fellow-student at Pudsey Grammar School for five years. She left a note for her mother and father that she was in love with Sydney and had decided to run away with him and get married. “You needn’t worry about us,” she said. “We can look after ourselves. Sydney will get a job, and when we are settled down I will write to you.” Her father said he was not in the least worried about her. “She is an independent type of girl,” he said, “and Sydney is a nice lad. When they return I will not be angry.” “Mavis has been working five nights of the week from six o’clock until half-past ten. She has seen Sydney at week-ends and, though I knew they were fond of each other, this elopement came as a surprise. “We have circularised all the regis- 1 try offices in the country. Mavis is only a schoolgirl, and still looks it.” It is believed Levy had £7 or £8 when they vanished. His parents had gone away for the week-end, leaving him alone in the house except for a maid. She says she saw him packing an expanding suitcase. Mavis called for him later, and they went out together. Mr Levy, a tailor, is not so pleased with the romance as Mr Jackson. “They were too young to be courting,” he said, “and the girl has never been in our house.” Mr Rennison, one of the Gretna “priests,” said he had been asked by the police not to marry the young couple should they arrive. “I gave my word I would not do so, ’ ’ he said.