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SHOWED HUSBAND LANDED ACRES AND ABSCONDED WITH JEWELLERY LONDON, Saturday. After a few weeks' acquaintance/ Mr. Arthur Davis, a retired Southend farmer, married Miss Gwendolen Read, 'who was his junior. The celebration ceremony cost ; £1000. The bride placed £10 of his j money in the church poor-box to" sigr.alise the engagement, spent £25 on a visit to an alleged general who was j "managing her Irish estatg," and put I the hridal bouquet on the war memj orial on the way to the wedding. I The reception and honeymoon- were [Tield in lrel'and, where the lady showed her husband an extensive estate, : saying it was hers, but the Catholic tenants would Hura the mansion if j they knew she had married a Protestant. j A warrant has now been issued bei cause the lady disappeared with jewellery worth £1,000, a number of sovereigns, £100 in banknotes, and valuable linen.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 99, 17 December 1931, Page 2
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