GIRL STOWAWAY
STORY OF ADVENTURE IN BRAZIL REVOLVER FIGHTS A girl stowaway, aged 22, has just been landed at Newport (Monmouthshire) from the steamship Siris'after a voyage from Paranagua, Brazil. The girl says she left home at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, at seventeen and worked at Cardiff as a waitress. Her name was Violet May Hulbert, and her father is a platelayer. She married a Portuguese customer named Teixeira. She says they went to Brazil, where he -disappeared. I lived sometimes on bananas and scraps from employers' tables. A coloured family sheltered me. During a state of war I was wounded twice in the legs. At Santos, in a wineshop next to my little room, there were often revolver fights. I carried a razor and revolver to protect myself and sometimes had to climb trees to escape. Then at Paranagua I saw the Siris hoist the Union Jack. I got men's clothes and boarded it as a stowaway. At Las Palmas several residents gave her clothes and made a collection for her. The crew, taking pity on her, fed and concealed her for 17 days before telling the captain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 5
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187GIRL STOWAWAY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 5
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