A MONTE CRISTO PRISONER.
An armed man named Georges Boucher, who ! hatl four times cscaped from custody in a daring .manner, has been arrested in Pari?. Called up in 1009 for military service in Algiers, lie behaved mutinously and was imprisoned in the barrack cslls, whence he cscaped and came to Paris, where ho was rearrested. While on the way back to Algiers, ho was confined for a few days in the prison of St. .loan at Marseilles, a medieval castle. Durin? exercise on the rarcjsn'rts, which avo 100 ft. above tho sea, lie dived into the water, missing the rocks by a few inches. Thpn he swam under water, avoiding the bullets of the warders, and escaped. This fent earned for him the name of "Monte Cristo."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 13
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128A MONTE CRISTO PRISONER. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 13
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