BOY’S CHEAP TRIP.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 August 1927, Page 5

BOY’S CHEAP TRIP.

NEW YORK TO PARIS

ONLY A NICKEL IN POCKET

SAN FRANCISCO. June 30

The story of how Herliei-t Avram, the 14-year-old son of a New York inventor, went to .Paris with only a nickel in his pocket is being vouched for by his fat lie r> Leaving high school on hearing of Captain Lindbergh’s exploit, he stole aboard the steamer Paris, told the ship’s officers his mother was sick in one of the staterooms, and hid in a tourist, cabin until tfw ship was 114 hours out, when lie announced himself a.s ;i stowaway. The captain allowed him ashore at Havre, warning him he must be back to return with the ship. But the youth had got some money from the passengers and (entrained fro Paris, only to finn that Liudltergh had left for the United States. Officials in Paris demanded the boy’s passport, but he told suc-h a heartrending story ot been separated from his sisters that tney lot him go. He paid an unexpected visit to his sisters, who are at school in Paris, and his father, who was communicated with, arranged that he should return by the first available steamer.