London, July 23.
A rather fastidious stowaway was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in Southampton yesterday.
The 30-year-old Russian Azevith had chosen the British vessel Aquitaula for a gratis trip to the United States. On board the Aquitania, however, he was unwilling to forego any of the life's comforts. Two hours after the liner had left Southampton, a steward was called by the bell signal to a bath room in the first class where he found an undressed man in the tub complaining that the hot-water tap did no work. The rather shabby suit of the clothes hanging from the peg aroused the steward's suspicion and the identity of the fussy passenger was discovered very soon.
The good-natured captain of the liner who was compelled by international conventions to transport the stowaway back to England, allowed him to stay in the third class. Azevith, however, ill-repaid the captain's benevolence for he behaved so outrageously towards women passengers that the captain was obliged to lock him up for the rest of the journey.—Trans-Ocean.
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