HOMESICK GIRL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3796, 5 April 1913, Page 4

HOMESICK GIRL.

SCHOOL SET ON FIRE. Remarkable methods adopted by a seventeen-year-old girl from the island of Skye (Inner Hebrides) to obtain dismissal from the Scottish Board ot Agriculture’ i domestic training school at Jiutherglen, near Glasgow, were described to the Glasgow Sheriff last month.

The girl, Alary Lain, admitted having on seven occasions during January set fire to articles in the school. Appealing for leniency, her solicitor said she had been in the school for six weeks and had become very homesick. She set lire to the articles with the foolish idea of making herself unpopular, so that she would be sent home.

The suspicions of the officials having been aroused by the frequency of the fires, said the Crown Solicitor, a policeman in plain clothes spent several days in the college without result. Three days after lie left an-, other fire occurred. While one of of the teachers was passing the girl’s bedroom she observed smoke, and going inside saw that a fire had been made. The girl then admitted her guiit.

Having received an assurance that Bain’s father would look after her, Sheriff Craigio said ho would let her go back to Skye. She left the court sobbing.