A "FLYING DUTCHMAN."
A Dutch convict, Marius Devoe, is the "hero" of a sensational escape from the prison at Scheveningen, relates the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail." After some unsuspecting workmen had wheeled him out of the prison at Scheveningen, concealed under a tarpaulin in a barrow, Marius dropped from the vehicle unperceived and joined his brother Maurice at a spot where the latter was waiting with his aeroplane. „ '■ . , L , A few minutes later Maurice and the escaped prisoner were; soaring nt a height of 1000 ft., and they crossed tho Dutch frontier into Bolgium flying at a speed of sixty miles an hpur. They -came to earth, took the aeroplane to pieces, and sent it on to Franco by rail, and themselves came to Paris in a motor-car.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 6
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130A "FLYING DUTCHMAN." Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 6
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