GIRL STOWAWAY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 13

GIRL STOWAWAY

UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE. Every official barrier was set up at Liverpool a few weeks ago to suppress the story of a pretty Irish girl who. hoping to obtain help from friends in Canada, stowed away under the canvas cover of a , ieboat in a steamship. The girl lived for 11 days on two loaves of bread, suffered agonies from thirst, was almost frozen to death by biting gales and icy spray that swept over her flimsy shelter in mid-Atlantic, and staggered ~ut on frost-bitten feet when the vessel reached port, only to learn that she would be at once sent back to England. The stowaway was Catherine Teresa Carr, a 24-year-old Belfast girl. The penalty for her adventure, it wns stated, would probably be the amputation of four tees as a result of frostbite. While Miss Carr lay in hospimi at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was taken, half-biinded with exposure, and witli her tongue and throat raw and swollen by novations, she reo-h 3d several offers of marriage or a horn: in Canada. But the immigration authorities insisted upon her deportation. Wrapped in blankets, with 1 shawl hiding her race, the girl was carried ashore on a stretcher when the steamer on which she was returned berthed at Liverpool. From the ship’s hospital Where all information about her was refused, she was escorted by a guard on either side of the stretcher, who would allow no one to speak to her, and was whisked away to a hospital. Passengers in the steamer who admired Miss Carr’s fortitude subscribed nearly £2O for her. and several women on board made offers of future help. It was understood that when she recovered she would be sent home to Belfast.