THE BOY STOWAWAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8672, 12 July 1906, Page 2

THE BOY STOWAWAY.

STANLEY CONDOR'S LATEST AND GREATEST EXPLOIT. As ft juvenile traveller, Stanley Condor, of Seacombe, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, is unrivalled. Although only eleven years of age, hie feats hare already earned him notoriety throughout England. Hidden in coal waggons, or hanging <© at the> peril of hi® life to buffers of railway engines, he has made long journeys on various railway systems wiin a daring equanimity that never failed to win him kindliness when detected. ' Stanley has just returned from, his twelfth and most ambitious quest of ed-ven-mre. Annoyed at the restricted linute of railway journey^ in Britain, he has managed to take a trip to NQtfa Scotia and back, incidentally crossing America from, Winnipeg to New Yofk. Secretly boarding a vessel leaving Liverpool for Halifax, he as astutely journeyed from the latter place to Winnipeg,, where his extensiye 'experience; .in. evading railway officials served him sufficiently well to enable: him to travel free to New York. By this time, however, the heat of hie adventurous spirit had somewhat cooled. A feeljng of home-siokngss got possession of him, and, <as a result, he concealed himself on the Victorian, bound for Liverpool, but before the Mersey pott was reached, weary and dispirited, he crawled from his hiding place and put himself at the tender mercy of tie officers, who handed him oirer to the Liverpool police on arrival in port. He was remanded to the worfehduee for seven days. Life under detention, however, had no attractitrtiß for Stanley Ooildor, and walls twelve feet high did not prevent his escape, along with two other boys, whose youthful hearts- he had fired with visions of a grand sail across the ocean and. a fine time in Canada. This time his plans failed. When he and his companions reached ihe HuSkissoii Dock, their quest for a Western.bound liner excited the euepioion of an officer, who took charge of them, with the result that eventually they were tiaken. back to the wprkhcrtjse. Until the manner in which Stanley's immediate future will be spent has been decided by the Stipendiary, he will be carefully guarded in the workhouse.