GIRL STOWAWAY'S ORDEAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 10

GIRL STOWAWAY'S ORDEAL

TEN DAYS OF TOIITL'RK.

For love's sake Jean Tucker, of Portsmouth, look lo a black hole, only 4ft. by Oft., in the extreme boiv of the American liner Philadelphia, and few women could ever have douo moro to provo their love. She went down into it. hiding herself in its narrow 6pacc, it is said, for tho eako of one of the shl;>;s stokers, when tlio vessel was lying at Southampton. Aud Chore she spent ten days, until she wasa t last drawn up at niglit through iVmanhole. She was then covered with grime, and was suffering excruciating pain from rheumatism; she was too weak to stand.

. During her droadful ten dnys, clothed in n man's overalls, she was up to her waist in water. Eats swarmed over her when slio was overcome by illness' and weariness, and tried to sleep.

Whenever the ship rolled she was dashed from side to sido of her prison, the while she suffered tho ajjonie6 of sea-sieknoss. The i only ,nir which, came to- her was through ly locker overhead in which potatoes 'had been stored. Food and drink she did not lack, as it was passed down to her, it is said, by her lover. Once, she said when released, she had given herself. and the Philadelphia up for lost. This was when a shock as of a collision against hor bow-plate beside her threw her off her feet. As the noiso was repeated several times, she thought the liner had struck a rock, and was pounding upon it. _ What she heard was a whalo, into which tho ship had run, as it flailed tho bow with its great tail until it was released, wheji the liner was backed away from it. ' It was through the actions of her stoker sweetheart, Edward Manning, who is alleged to have smuggled her aboard, and of one of his males, James Fallon, that she was discovered by the ship's officers. , , • , , i There had been complaints by women steerago passengers of the loss of cloth-~ ing and various articles, and many hours after the ship had been docked at New York it is said. Manning was noticed on deck with ft bundle of women's clothing. While he was being questioned screams wero heard below in the bow of the ship, and, rushing to the main deck, the officers caught Fallon, they say, trying to pull Miss TucKer through the man-liola. It is also declared that she was being hit on tho jaw to make her go back into the hole. But she was jammci. and almost unconscious from weakness whon Purser Lock and two of the deck officers hailled her out. Both stokers wore locked in tho brig for tho night, and were then taken to the Tombs Prison by tho police, pending thoir arraignment on a charge of violating -tho law by attempting to smuggle an alien into the country. After receiving medical attention. Miss Tucker, who is only 22, was sent to tho immigration station at Ellis Island. It is udded that she was induced to undortake tho adventure because Mnnriii» had threatened to commit suicide if sho° would not travel to New lork and marry him-