GIRL STOWAWAY
HID IN SINKING SHIP A slim, dark-haired girl in the dock at Bristol Police Court told in quiet tones how she walked past the guards at Avonmouth Docks without being challenged and stowed away in an American ship. The ship was torpedoed in midAtlantic, and she was rescued. She said she was put in a lifebcat which was picked up after six hours. When she landed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, she was arrested and sent back home to Bristol. Now Domillie Lucia James, aged 23, of Oxford Street, Kingsdown, Bristol, pleaded guilty to leaving the United Kingdom without permission on September 12. She was bound ever for a year. She said she was persuaded to stow away by an American sailor whom she met in Bristol. She went on board dressed as a girl because the sailor had been unable to get any men's clothes out to her. He hid her in a locker full of ropes and paint. James, whose father was a West Indian and her mother Irish, apologised for the trouble she had caused.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1944, Page 3
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