A CONVICTS ESCAPE. A CLENER FRENCHMAN IOOLS THE FORCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 263, 12 May 1888, Page 5

A CONVICTS ESCAPE. A CLENER FRENCHMAN lOOLS THE FORCE.

•h-it- RinvC\. a IViu.li iieUl v* l< a\e man, einplinccl in the otlicc of the pii-on at Noumea, va* ieeentl\ mi-od. ond, eontcm poraiy within* .ihsomo, it u.i-dw ovcicd that a-urn of monc\, thepiopem ot the»<o \ernment, wa= aL>o uone. >um'lnMMM.|p for him, but he no- on the inland, and the frhip^ In tho h.irbom were watched without an\ <'Kie to his wheicabouts buoj> di-<u\cioil One outwaid bound \e-d n\.i- to have the pu-onei nn \nj^u\, and a wa? oideicd toa< c>mi)an> hoi lie seaithed cc\eial time- without t-uuT— • find n v. a= not until he landed in S\dnc> thai h. learned for ceitain hi- man had been a tellow pa ?senger I'inhably -ome nnnrlhad kept him car<'fulh out of-iiilit. and the warder' m>% or baw him He found out ton lute, how.-mi, that vhen Mu.hin- one nin-ht he came upon the pn-onu hi enn-\er,-ation vith the hi emeu, one ot an horn promptly placed a. candle m hi- hand, ami bade hrm e=coit M. t< '/' mint me o\ti the boat And -o the> went, policeiiKui and pii-onci in compau>, and a mo-t caietul -eaich va- instituted l>\ the pu-onc\ foi himself The otlicci pa\o up tht iha-eat S\dnev, and the e=eapee i- now vpecdiTii: over the water- to hi- nati\e land, once again a free man.