JUDICIAL ERROR

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 1

JUDICIAL ERROR

£lO KOI! ELEVEN YEARS OX DEVIL’S ISLAND. Five thousand frnucs—tlie equivalent' (if £4o—is nil that tlio Court of Appeal lias awarded hy way of damages to a man who was wrongly sentenced to deportation for life in I'J.Ki, and wlm has spent eleven years on Devil’s island. lii.s name is Rollon, lie, was in Switzerland at the beginning of the war, and made the ae<|iiaintanec of an American who was in the French espionage service, and to whom he lent a sum ot money. This money not. hcing_ repaid, Ridloii lodged a complaint against the spy. The latter, by way of revenge, informed the French authorities that Rollon had denounced him as a, French spv. On returning to France in RJKi Bcllon teas .sentenced hy court-martial for having given away a. French intelligence agent to a foreign Government, and whs sent, to Devil’s Island. Friends in Franco look np his ease, and at, Inst the Court of Cassation annulled the judgment and rehabilitated tinvictim of a “judicial error.”