ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 26, 29 December 1883, Page 3

ESCAPE OF CONVICTS.

J^ ill! .) ..> ■■<»— >- -■ • • A Strange Stotfv. ; _ . : -The> pepai>Bettletnent of our Indian Empire is m the Andaman Islands, a spas 11 group off the coast of British S -Bfurma&;^ It'tfaW 'twere in : lßt2 that 'ttjfe Viceroy of thaf 'titiie, Ebrd Mayo, "opt wiih his. death. Amon^ pthe^s, mve&'ineifyrety recently; confined there under^seiitencess :'oi of niurder; One was^Bdrfcffan/ whd ; muVdetdd l nis wife nine t kg6/' i; a!nd !^a.f • s^fcte tfced ' to Akvjen yeSrSVtrang^t^onMiTfefoi 1 ' On the 23i*d of July last a gan* of fourteen convicts' made iheir fscjuje^froni^iPdrt ; Blaii4 The three alreacy named, had beateii fibout for some liml & sea.,tv^rpf ftejn "jr&fe completely exhausted 'antl "ohe -was insensible, when an Italian ship fell m with them and picked then. up. ,IJijßy repvqaented. thenselves to be fishermen of Kurirf^lee, who haji;be.en driven jout by stress p^ weather, and had been tVenty- ; five days^afe^ea 1 wi|;h 'no other fooil than the ifißn-they 1 'tJaAld^affilr! The Italian csptjain 'aWd ■ci i ew % 4rba f ted" thbm kindly, v aE[d!ctlfi4ed thfem id liVerpbof, ' whetice thiy! T^ere cofiveyed K i6 c tli6 'Sailors' j^ome'in'ljpiicloh, where 't^/ey ,fp^h ! r^ Mbirtlk 1 '^ «ie epA'M iho iime they^ere veturrifed 1 to !l ßc>mbay, 'yrjjfi'jc&fti^ police -were puzzled to' know what tH nftfcfaf thbtt 1 ; FiQally tliey wer^j iforw^rded under .escort to Kiirrachefe, dai-eftvi'Mye'stigatibnat ;lastiled to tire?^i.^ovfeiy that the' three uDkjiown, , Nylip had a 'journey nearly wDild^he. worjil, were;a pQ)tipn"pf the mj^sing^ co'tivic^.' 1 ' $hey 'wili h 1 5 a ititmnge story to tejl wKeiTthey .return jLoattieit* -fdi'mer at : Port Blair. i-#eekly Whig. -^ :l! ''