SEVEN STOWAWAYS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 3

SEVEN STOWAWAYS.

TROUBLE IN LONDON DOCK. , (FBOJd OUP. OWN COKKESrOM-DENT.) LONDON, March 31. Seven stowaways were found on board the Port Caroline after she left New Zealand. When the ship was approaching the King George V. Dock the cap tain bad the men-confined in hospital qu arter9 > and sent a wireless message to the police. The policemen were ™u™ag when the vessel docked. "Gome. ivrth me," said the skippor to the police, "I have your men under lock and key. Ad he led the way to the hospital cabin. But the door was open and tw cabin empty. The lock of the door lad been removed. After a :search of the ship eix men were recaptured. One was * Evefy nook and cranny of the ship was searched. The hunt was continued along quays and in the sheds. Members of the crew assorted thai the missing man must have climbed through a porthole while the vessel w-as m the iock at the dock entrance in the dark, Ine hunt extended all over London, and a description was circulated to all police stations. The police learned that the missing man had friends near Chiswiek. So officers were sent to Chiswiek to keep a close watch in the district arid late in the afternoon they found their The seven stowaways appeared to-day before the East Ham magistrates. The men are:—Denis Russell Owen, 24, farm labourer, of Pinner Green, Middlesex: Frederick Dodd, 21, farm labourer, of Glasgow; John Gordon Cameron, 21, seaman, of no fixed ad dress; William Studderd Jarvis Spence, 21, farm labourer, Edinburgh; George Henry Williamson, 20, farm labourer of 2, Aldon road, Oxley, Watford; Stanley Thomas Sands, 20, of Wath-on-Oreen, Yorkshire; and Herbert Jack Palmer, da, bricklayer, of Bell and Crown publichouse, Strand-on-thc-Green, Chiswiek. When the ship arrived at Gravesend, it was stated, the master locked up tie men in the ship's hospital, but one broke the lock of the door and they all escaped. , Palmer got on to the docks, but was arrested at Chiswiek. Dodd also managed to get oil tne ship, but he was arrested in the dock. Ow:n said they were not able to get jobs in New Zealand, and they had had nothing to eat. Palmer said he had received a letter saving that his father was seriously ill, and he had no other way of getting back. His father had since died. All the men were sentenced to -8 days' imprisonment.