CONVICT'S BID FOR FREEDOM.
FOILED BY TIDE. A hreak for freedom from the French' penal colony at Cayenne, French-Guiana, hy Oscar Wlalker, was frustrated by the tide. For 16 days he had eluded his pursuers, pxciting the countryside with recldess efforts to get through to his native Dutch Guiana. He slipped through a cordon of police placed around Georgetown, tramped 80 miles to New Amsterdam, stole a policeman's hicycle and rode 40 miles to the border town of Springlands, stole a 'boat and attempted to cross the Corentyne River to Nickerie. The tide cut short his flight, however, carrying him down the river to where the police were waiting for him.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 711, 11 December 1933, Page 7
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111CONVICT'S BID FOR FREEDOM. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 711, 11 December 1933, Page 7
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