Cargo of Cut-Throats
CONVICT SHIP’S VOYAGE
HUNDREDS OF CRIMINALS FOR FRENCH GUIANA By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright, Reed. 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Wed. That the days of the convict ship are by no means over is shown by the departure from Saint Martin of the Martiniere with a load of 418 convicts for French Guiana, where they will endure penal servitude, closely confined, under conditions little better than those of half a century ago. r pHE men marched on foot through
the streets to embark, wearingprison garb and the characteristic little cap. They included the wellknown Doctor Bourgrat, who murdered a cashier at Marseilles and hid
the body in his surgery cupboard. Young men predominated among the convicts, who were gloomy and
The Martiniere is putting in at Algiers To take aboard another consignment of murderers and others before setting out on her long voyage.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 11
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