FRENCH CONVICT ESCAPES.
LONG LIFE ON DEVIL'S ISLAND. After 35 years oh Devil's Island (the penal settlement at French Guiana) a convict escaped because he wanted to gee Paris again. Having done ao lie gave himself up To the police in a suburb of Paris. A poorly-dressed old man, with grey hair and beard, he entered the office of the commissary and said, "I am an escaped convict. Please arrest mc." His name, he. said, was Jules Lannefranque, and Ms age,66. While in the army in 1885 he killed a man and was sentenced to death. This sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. to New Caledonia, he tried many times to escape, but failed. He was then sent to Devil's Island. Homesick, and haunted by the Idea ot seeing Paris again, he managed to escape some years ago, and after living for a time in South America went-to France in 1924, and spent all the money he had on a thoroughly good time. He was without resources and unable to get work because he had no papers of identity. . -7 " done what he wished to do—seen Paris and enjoyed himself for the last time—he gave himself up.^
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 25
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199FRENCH CONVICT ESCAPES. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 25
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