BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

• HULL DOCKS FIRE. FRUIT DEPOT DESTROYED. TReutor Telegrams.] (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. A lingo fire at Hull docks burned almost the entire fruit depot. Thousands of pounds worth of fruit were destroyed.

“HUMAN EEL” ESCAPES. PARIS, Aug. 5,

A well-known swindler named George Remeuo, whose fiction like feats in escaping from the police have captivated the public imagination and earned him the nickname of “human eel,” effected his 17th. escape in a sensational manner. He was wanted on 20 charges all over France and was recently arrested, whereupon he boasted he should not stay long. He was taken to Court with ten others hut not handcuffed. When the gaoler’s attention was distracted he mingled with a group of juvenile prisoners whose names had just heen called, but at the door, drawing from his pocket legal documents which he had picked up, he calmly walked out. When challenged by the guard he waved the paper, replying “Detective Inspector,” and hailing a taxi disappeared. Tlie press tells‘of former escapes of which the most romantic was at Havre, where he tunnelled under a wall, replacing the debris nightly in a fllonto Cristo manner, till ready to leave.