DEVIL’S ISLAND
INNOCENT MAN RELEASED £4O AS COMPENSATION Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyright PARIS. April 1. (Received April 2, at 1.25 p.m.) Henri Bellon, a former Marseilles hairdresser, arrived at Havre after eleven years on Devil’s Island, where he was serving a life sentence for allegedly betraying his country—a charge which has been proved to bo wrong. He had been convicted on the evidence of a man who during 1926 appeared as a witness in a murder charge, but the evidence was found so outrageous that the judge ordered him from the court. Bellon’s case was later reopened, and he was found entirely innocent. -the authorities released him, and gave him £4O as compensation, which was just sufficient to pay his iare home. Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20139, 2 April 1929, Page 11
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