STOWAWAY GANG.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 September 1908, Page 4

STOWAWAY GANG.

LIVERPOOL SHIP LANDS 22 DESTITUTE PASSENGERS. Twenty-two destitute men and boys were landed at Falmouth from the Liverpool steamship Barbary, bound with a general cargo for Buenos Ayres. They ' were all stowawaye. The boys were ' Liverpool newspaper vendors, and Uie 5 mon of illl tradt* and no trade, among r . them beiiiLi several belonging to the 3 Arniv and Navy Ueserve. lhe Barbary ". left Liverpool late on a Satm day night, • and at daybreak on the Sunday mornI mc the numbei* of the crew appeared • to thu captain to have far outgrown > the ordinary dimensions. Then soma of the men confessed that t they were stowaways, and the captain - consented to si.un thorn on as crew, but j still thu number grew, and then a ! search was made, with the result thai 1 in all 22 stowaways wero muitered. f The captain feared for his stock of ■' 1 l-Mjvisians. and d«terni|ined Vhat all " ; stowaways ehould bo landed. " : Altering his course, he transferred ' i his unwelcome guests lo the tug Briton "I off the Lizard, and they were lan jed J ' nt Falmouth. L ' j Ono of the men said *. "We were J driven to it by the distress in Liverj pool, and we hoped U> get work in '. Bucnios Avres. Very few of us knew 1 ' the others were in the ship, though ' j most of us were chums. We were all ' ] Doimilifis. and could only scrape enough I food U> take with us to last a few ] hours. ''■ "The vessel was to have sailed on tho Friday, and we had hidden ourselves 24 . hours before she started. By that time i al! our food was exhausted. We had j hidden ourselves among the coal and j the canw. and gradually we found otheix then>. and we discussed our plans. | lt was ananged that we were to make onr.'it-lvort known gradually, hut when the captain found our numbers increasj mc he ordered the vessel to be searched. t "Even then we were not all discoverd, for I reckon there were about 30 altocether. and the rest will come out when the ship gets out at sea. Our condition now is worse than it t waa before, for we have no means of , getting back lo Liverpool, the only place offered us being the tramp ward at the workhouse. All the consolation we could r.M from the Board of Trade officer and the shipping agents- was that wo ouelit to think ourselves lucky that we have not been sent to prison. 1 '