A CRIMINAL'S PARADISE
The " Dally Telegraph's " Paris correspondent says : —New Caledonia is the criminals' pared lie. All the murderers hope that their llvea will bo spared by the President of the Republic, and that they will lave a happy time m "La Nouvelle," as they call it* The cases are not Infre* quent m which prisoners stab their turnkeys with a view to being condemned for the crime, and then transferred from Glatmox and other jails to their Utopia. Yon may romember the case of the man Fenryrou who mardtred his wife's lover, Aaber, at L'Peoq. The pair are now living comfortably m New Caledonia on thole owa hod, which fa «uUlvatad f ot them by convicts. Pel, the Montreuil eloebmaker, who made away with his wife and servant, is a hospital nurae. Other examples might be cited to show that steady behaviour soon works marvels In New Caledonia, Little wonder that orimlnali should prefer the colony to the hard and monotonous life of a. prison. The Societe Franoalse de Colonisation has decided to send twenty-five f*milies of emigrants to the New Hebrides. They are to embark at Marseilles on the 7th of March,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1571, 30 May 1887, Page 3
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194A CRIMINAL'S PARADISE Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1571, 30 May 1887, Page 3
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