CONVICTS ESCAPE.
From French Prison On Devil’s Island.
Press Association —Copyright. Trinidad, February 20.
Eight exhausted, sun-blistered convicts reached here to-day in an Indian dug-out after spending 16 days on a 750-mile journey. They escaped from Devil’s- Island. Three were murderers, two of their unfaithful sweethearts, and
there was a bank robber, a jewel thief and three habitual criminals. They endured enormous suffering from storms and insufficient food. Under the new regulations of the Trinidad Government they may remain indefinitely. Formerly they would have been deported.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 366, 22 February 1937, Page 5
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86CONVICTS ESCAPE. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 366, 22 February 1937, Page 5
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