CABLE BRIEFS.
Paris, August 28. Word has been received that 30 armed convicts escaped irom prison in French Guiana. They assassinated a Commissary of Police and are terrorising the district. [French Guiana is in South America, on the Atlantic coast, between Brazil and Dutch Guiana. The colony is used as a penal settlement, the penal population in 1903 being about 6500.] Sydnky, August 29. At the trial of Joseph Wilson for the murder of Captain Walter Fox at Woy Woy, on August and, the jury found that accused was insane when he committed the deed. The Judge ordered the prisoner be detained during the Governor’s pleasure. [Wilson, who was a boardinghouse keeper at Woy Woy, a small town on the Great Northern Railway, 45 miles north of Sydney, shot Fox while the latter was sitting in a room. No motive was assigned for the crime, but it was believed that Wilson’s mind was unhinged.] New York, August 28.
There is an impression in Washington that President Roosevelt is sending the fleet to the Pacific in order to win support from the Pacific Coast States at next Presidential election.
[The fleet will consist at the start of 16 battleships under RearAdmiral Evans, leaving in December.]
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 31 August 1907, Page 3
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204CABLE BRIEFS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 31 August 1907, Page 3
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