HIDDEN ON STEAMER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21469, 18 April 1933, Page 10

HIDDEN ON STEAMER

YOUNG AUCKLAND GIRL TRIP TO CHATHAM ISLANDS ARREST ENDS ESCAPADE [liY TELEGRAPH —I'll ESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday Despito efforts to prevent lior from running away to tlio Chatham Islands with a married man, a 19-year-old Auckland girl of good education was hidden aboard the small steamer Tees, and it was not realised until some days after the vessel had cleared Lyttelton that she was missing. She was arrested at the Chatham Islands and was charged in tlio Magistrate's Court today before Mr. H. W. Young, S.M., with being idle and disorderly. Before the girl was asked to plead, Senior-Sergeant J. Fox told the Court of her adventures, and the case was then adjourned to allow her to return to Auckland with her mother. The senior-sergeant said that the girl was the only child of well-to-do people in Auckland. Sho was well educated, having spent some time at a collego. For about two yeara she kept company with a respectable young man, but then a married man crossed her path. She became infatuated with him and in the following weeks her behaviour was not of the best, and she was found to be leading a fast life, with motorcar rides, parties and so on. The man went to Auckland, visited the girl's parents and posed as a single man. Her parents warned her, but she did not heed them. The man secured a job at the Chatham Islands and proposed to take the girl with him. Before tho steamer Tecs sailed on April 4, however, sho was interviewed and promised not to go to the Chatham Islands. Then, by a conspiracy, sho was hidden on the steamer. When it was ' discovered that tho girl had disappeared her parents communicated with the police and she was arrested at the Chathams and sent back by the Tees. Tho girl's mother had come from Auckland and had succeeded in persuading her to return with her. Ihe girl had evidently learned the error of her ways. Tho senior-sergeant, therefore, asked that tho case be adjourned for a week, and suggested that at tho end of that time the charge might be withdrawn. . 1 . . On obtaining a promise from tho girl that she would return with her mother, tho magistrate agreed to the request, and also ordered that the girl s name be suppressed.