INNOCENT MAN FREED
ELEVEN YEARS ON DEVIL’S ISLAND FRANCE GIVES HIM £4O (United P.A.—By Telegraph — -Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1.55 p.m. PARIS, Monday. Henri Bellon, a former Marseilles hairdresser, has arrived at Havre after 11 years on Devil’s Island, where he was serving a life sentence for allegedly betraying his country, a charge which has now been proved to have been wrong. He had been convicted on the evidence of a man who, during 1926, appeared as a witness in a murder charge, hut his evidence was found to be so outrageous that the judge ordered him from the court. Bellon’s case was later reopened, and he was found to he entirely innocent. The authorities released him and gave him £4O compensation, which was just sufficient to pay his fare home.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 9
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134INNOCENT MAN FREED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 9
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