PRISONERS ESCAPE.
DESPERATE BID FOR FREEDOM. PARIS, August 17. Eleven life sentence prisoners recently escaped from the French penal settlement on Devil's Island. They managed to .obtain a sailing boat at the outset, and made a desperate bid for freedom. They sailed safely tor six davs, then a storm capsized the boat. * Two of the men were immediately dragged down, and killed by sharks The others righted the boat and scrambled back. They have just readied Trinidad, but will not he sate unless the French authorities retrain from extradition proceedings for three months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 262, 19 August 1930, Page 5
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