GIRL STOWAWAY FOUND

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 9

GIRL STOWAWAY FOUND

LEFT HER HOME AT SYDNEY. PROBLEM FOR THE MAGISTRATE. I ‘• • . ■ • ■ ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Marion Ball, aged 19, bom in Yorkhire and whose parents live in Balfour street, Sydney,. stowed away on the Mariposa, which; arrived from Australia to-day. She boarded the liner on Saturday and, finding room 501 in the cabin class vacant, she hid herself under the bunk, giving herself up to a steward a couple of hours after clearing the heads. “Don’t send me back to Australia; I want to go to America,” she pleaded this morning in telling an unusual storyto the’police and the Customs officers, but her pleadings were in vain, for when she left the wharf in a car she had a constable as an escort. ' The girl was charged before Mr. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court with having stowed away. She pleaded Kelly said the slapping company had consented to take her back to Australia by the Monterey, sailing on December 5. The girl, who commenced crying hysterically, said she was acquainted , with a member of the crew of the Mariposa, who had no money, but if she was allowed to continue the voyage her fare would bo paid. , , Mr. Kelly: She would have even less chance of getting into America than into New Zealand. The girl (to the Mariposa’s purser, who was in Court): Oh Purser, can you not take me back to the Mariposa? Ido not want to be to prison. You will get your money all right. Please go and see the captain. ' • . The magistrate: We have quite a number of male stowaways but this is the first time I have had a female stowaway before me. The only thing I can do is to order her to be detained in custody until arrangements can be made for her to be taken back to Australia. “I am sorry for you, but it is all I can said Mr. McKean to the girl, in finding her £lO, in default 21 days imprisonment.