STOWAWAYS AS PASSENGERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19530, 13 July 1925, Page 10

STOWAWAYS AS PASSENGERS.

SEA ADVENTURES. (Feom Odb Own Cohbespondent.) LONDON, June 2. The remarkable adventures of two stowaways named John Leslie Robertson, aged 30, Lerwick, and William Charles H. Bob joy, aged 21, Wellington, were related at East Ham when they were sentenced to 28 days’ hard labour. It was stated that when the lonic lei. Wellington search was made for stowaways, but none were found. At sea, however, three were found in a small boat. When the vessel got to Colon one jumped overboard. On the lonic putting to sea a day or so later two men who had been among the thirdclass passengers could not be found. “MISSED THE SHIP.” This fact was explained later when Robertson and Pobjoy reported at Colon that they were third-class passengers, and had missed the ship. They were brought back to England on the Orava and were handed over to the police at Southampton an they had no,— papers. R bertson and Pobjoy, in nleading guilty, said that at Wellington they mixed with the third-ciass passengers, and none of the officials had asked for their passports. ,