HUNGER STRIKER
ESCAPES FROM HOSPITAL
L United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]
PARIS, March 24. Madame Hamm, the hunger striker, . made a sensational escape from, the Cochin Hospital. The Commissioner of Police telephoned them at 9.30 o’clock in the evening to ask of her condition. He was astonished when he was told that she was no longer in bed. He ordered a search and it was then found that she had escaped, by a window. The watching police saw nothing, as they were stationed in a corridor outside her bedroom. Madame Hamm, without any aid, despite her exhaustion due to her 23 ' days’ hunger strike, tied the bed ‘ clothes together and fastened one end to the bar of the window, and slid down. The hospital gardens being deserted, she walked out of 1 a gate, hailed a taxi, and gave the address of Saint bizarre Prison. About ten o’clock in the evening the warders at the prison were astonished to 1 see Madame Hamm at the gate. She said: “I am lithe!”' Then she fainted, having been utterly exhausted by the efforts of nor escape.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 4
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184HUNGER STRIKER Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1930, Page 4
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