STOWAWAY ON STEAMER

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 1, 13 December 1928, Page 3

STOWAWAY ON STEAMER

A FREE TRIP TO SAMOA. SUVA, December 3. Miss Flo Lewis, a talented American vaudeville artist, travelling to Albtral.it by tlia Sierra last week, had' an i xpenence at Hoholulu which she’ geared v‘ re lished. Twelve inciths ago / Aliss Lewis gave a man two dollars at the door of ah American theatre, la which she was playing, because he was “broke” Recently she “signed on” with J. C. Williamson and Company, in Honohi In atti( acted, th© attention of the same man; who had drifted into the Hawaiian Islands. He said nothing, 1 but stowed away on board the ship and' lay low until the ship whs well otit at sea. Then he contrived) to have notes sent to the actress, who, ho'W- ' ©vhr, ignored them. When discovered by the crew the man claimed personal acquaintance with Miss Lewis, stating that the would piy his fare. But she. was not'going to be imposed upon, and the stowaway was (landed at Pago Pago, to be sent hack by "the next steamer, probably after serving a term of imprisonment. Miss Lewis could not hoiip pitying him as lip left the slijp and landed hi'in 10 dollars to ho'ip’ him during his “visit” tc( Samoa.