A Remarkable Escape
An escape has been made from the Mazas Gaol'iin^er circumstances of unheard daring and skill. A prisoner I named Altniaynr, belonging to an honoralile and w«-ll- to-do Jewish family, who was undergoing a term of imprisonment for embezzling nearly £2,000 from a banker of the Boulevard Poissonniere, Paris, forged in his cell a letter of dismissal, and obtained his liberty, by showiug it to the warders &nd haU-porter. How he counterfeited the official seal is not yet known. It is supposed that while he was being examined in the Judge Instruction's office in the cit3' he quietly, while M. Vilier's back was turned, took up the stamp and marked a sheet of willing paper. In his cell he imitated with marvellous skill the magistrate's handwriting, which he had leisure to study during his confinement of two months and a-half. The letter was an order, signed by M. Villers in the name of the procurator, to set free the prisoner Altmayer. He enclosed this in an official envelope, stolen, no doubt, from the Judge's offices, and on leaving thence before entering the van he handed it to his warder with a request to take it to the prison director. Arrived at Mazas, the prisoner after, remaining for five aiinutes with the other new inmates, was called up and sent away free.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 3
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225A Remarkable Escape Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 3
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