ELOPING GERMAN
MARRIES ANOTHER GIRL HEART-BALM TRIP LONDON, Nov. 1. Fritz Arronge, the German who eloped from Nice six months ago with Joan Valentine Thomas, 16-year-old daughter of a wealthy Briton, is now married—but not to her. His wife is an American girl. He met her in a liner during a trip round the world which he began ‘‘to forget about love." They married in Honolulu. Miss Thomas returned engagement ring to him three weeks after their elopement. When they ran away, (hey hid for two days in Paris while police sought Arronge. Then they went back to Nice in answer to a telegram from Joan’s father, a retired grain dealer, of Durban, South Africa. The day after the engagement was broken Arronge was found drugged in his hotel bedroom. He had drawn up a will leaving Joan more than £IOOO, and had sent her a letter saying he intended to end his life. When he recovered he tore up the will and used the money for his heartbalm trip.
In a letter just received by a friend in London he describes his wife as the former Billie Mae Collins.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 8
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190ELOPING GERMAN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20129, 26 December 1939, Page 8
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