The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-07-31
MUST EMO HER
DAYS At SEA
MRS. MARGARET NORTHINGTON
Is ORDERED DEPORTED AGAIN.
NO FLAG WILL OWN THIS AGED
WIDOW

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.-Marga-
ret Northington, aged %, friendless, in
poverty and shorn of all her memo
ries of happier times, must start again
on her travels up and down the seas.
For a year she has had no country,
and her appeals to both the American
and English flags have met with cold
rebuffs. Within a few days she will
leave the Old Ladies' Home, where
she has been kindly cared for, and
start once more on a voyage which will
end only when some skipper pulls out
his prayer book and the quartermaster
tips her withered body swathed in cam
vas into the ocean, SO long her only
home.
The immigration authorities here
have denied her last appeal; United
States District Judge De Haven some
time ago decided that no writ of ha-
hcas corpus lay, and for some weeks
she has been i'm the custody Of char
ity.
Mrs. Northington widow of a Brit
ish Army officer first came to the at
l. >
when she arrived at this port in Feb
rUary of this years from British Co
lumbia. She was denied landing then
and sent back to British territory.
There she was also denied a landing,
and for several weeks she was a ira
Weller uD and down the coast on the
steamers of the Pacific Coast Steam
shiI, Company. Then friends of the
moment took pity on her, and an at
tCrney took the matter up before the
courts and the immigration Bureau
all without result.
Now Mrs. Northington will be put on
a steamer for New Zealand, whence
she is said to have come on sailing
vessel two years ago. Her landing
there will be forbidden, at it was in
| British Columbia, and her sole hope
is the faint one that some one is will
ing to go her bond to support her for
the rest of her life.
| The old woman is now i'm her do
tage. Her feeble mind recalls but few
! happenings later than the death of her
! husband, a relative of the titled North
| inCtons of England. To the best of
! her memory, he died in India, leaving
her with a daughter who married and
came to this city. When the darkness
of age and debility came over her, she
turned fondly to this one member left
of her family. She arrived i'm san
! Francisco. and in her search traced
the daughter, or the woman she
thought was her daughter, to Dawson
CITY. But i'm the meantime her little
fund of money dwindled away. She
vhu had once lived with The bes,
slept on a police station floor and was
finally helped to this city again. Her
feeble condition and her shattered
mind brought her under the provisions
of the statute relating to immigrants
liable to become a public charge She
was sent back to Victoria, was re-
fused landing, and since then, until
her reception in the Old Ladies Home,
has been an unwilling passenger be-
| tween the two countries.
BY orders from Washington she viii
now be sent to Auckland. If she is re-
turned from that port, as there is lit
tie doubt, in view of the statement of
the British ambassador at Washing
tor, she will hereafter find no foot
hold on solid ground. Her life will
be passed in the steerage of a liner
the greasy steward her only nurse,
her sole companions those of a voy-
age, homeless, unfriended, alone with
the few memories left her by the cruel
hand of time.
Later charitably disposed people have
come to the WOman's rescue and she
/ will be cared for i'm San Francisco.