New York, April 2—Fifteen-year-old Frances Heenan is engaged to marry Edward W. Browning, she announced tonight. He is building a home for them on a 135-acre estate at Bellmore, L.I, she added.
The latest Cinderella of the elderly real estate operator made the announcement “to correct the false impression that I am an “adventuress” and to protect her beleaguered admirer, whose attentions to her are under scrutiny of the Children’s Society.
Both Browning and the girl previously had refused to either conform or deny reports of their engagement although they made no secret of their friendship.
The girl is now recovering from burns on the face said to have been inflicted by an unidentified assailant who threw acid on her as she slept, and Browning today offered to undergo a skin grafting operation to save her beauty.
“The date of our wedding has not been fixed,” Miss Heenan said, “but it will e some time after my 16th birthday, which is on next June 23.”
“Daddy,” as she called Browning, has promised to let her pick out her engagement ring at a Fifth Avenue jeweler’s, she said.
“I am not marrying Mr. Browning for his money nor for a career,” she added.
“I am a home loving person and I want intellectual companionship with a man with whom I can feel safe.”
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, April 3, 1926
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