"BORN TO TROUBLE."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 210, 5 March 1914, Page 3

"BORN TO TROUBLE."

.SHADOW OF A\ T OLD CRIME. Sydney, February 2). Many New Zea landers will remember .111 incident of twenty yours ago, when two men, named Cafi'rey and Penn. after murdering a settler mimed Taylor! on Orcat Harrier Island, secured a boat and set out on one of the most, adventurous voyages ever attempted, finally arriving-, after many days of constant peril, at the .historic township of Port Uacqtiaric, in Xew .South Wales. . And with them they brought a woman, tirace Palmer. The story has often been told —it ia, indeed, the subject of one of the stories of the late Louis Becke, who used to live at Port Mai'qnarie-how Hie three were arrested soon after their landing, and how the men were convicted and executed, mninly on the evidence of the woman. It was told once again at tlie Central Police Court, Sydney, on Thursday, when a woman, with sad and haggard features, appeared to answer a charge of having insuilieienl means of support. Her mime was (■'race Palmer. Hers was a face, and •liers a story, that men and women might well grieve over. Here, if there was one, was a woman whose life, as the prosecuting sergeant put it, 'had been fully of troubles. She had been "known" (o the police for the last fifteen or twenty years. The sergeant told the old story to the Magistrate. "Oh. you needn't tell it all again," cried the woman, as the bitter memories of the past crowded upon her. "She seems to be one of those unfortunate creaturewho are better in gaol than out of H," commented the Magistrate, and he sentenced her to six months' imprisonment.