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Show FIND FEW WOMEN STOWAWAYS. Rare Cases Involving Members of the Gentler Sex. Womon stowaways arc very rare On Sept. S. 1001, ono was found on tho Neptune Hue steamer Ohio, which sailed that day from Baltimore, for ltottordnm. Cnpt. Samuel Wilson, who commanded tho Ohio, Intended sending send-ing her back on tho pilot boat with Pilot William Carroll, but as It might havo cost tho woman her llfo If sho had been forced to tako to tho boat, tho weather being so severe at tho time, sho was allowed to remain. A woman disguised us n man shipped as a "cattleman" on tho Johnston steamer Vedamoro sovoral years ago, when tho late Robert Bartlett was In command. Her sex was discovered before the blilp reached tho Bristol channel, and Capt. Bnrtlctt had hor placed in security until Liverpool was reached. She smoked cigarettes, played play-ed cards and had the record heforo being be-ing discovered of attending to tho cat-tlo cat-tlo better than any ono of tho men who had shipped to perform tho same duty. Heccntly In New York Louisa Shal-ler Shal-ler was found among tho steerage passengers pas-sengers of tho North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wllhelm dor Grosse. Sho was not a stowaway, but mixed up with tho Immigrants before tho ship left Bremen and reached Now York. Sho said her son was a passenger pas-senger on tho steamer, and sho could not bear to havo hlra leave without hor, and Bhe had not tho money to pay her passage. She was allowed to land by tho Immigrant officials. |