YOUNG STOWAWAY.
Orphan Girl Hides On Liner For England.
(Received 11.35 a.m.) Capetown, February 8
A 16-year old orphan girl who determined not to go to a boardingschool, evaded her guardian and Became the heroine of two Union Castle liners which she held up at sea.
She stowed away aboard the Carnarvon Castle and was discovered when the ship was 24 hours from Cape Town. . She became popular with the passengers who, four days later, lined the bulwarks at dawn to watch her transferred by boat to the Warwick Castle in order to return to Cape Town. She sat in the stern sheets waving goodbye and shouting, “Give ray love to the Captain.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 355, 9 February 1937, Page 5
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113YOUNG STOWAWAY. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 355, 9 February 1937, Page 5
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