Let F be a free group and R less than or equal to F a characteristic s
ubgroup. Automorphisms of FIR which are induced by automorphisms of F
are called tame. In this paper we use the N-torsion invariant discover
ed by the first author and M. Lustig [LM] to show the existence of non
-tame automorphisms of free central extensions and free nilpotent exte
nsions of Burnside groups.