A CONVICT'S HEROISM.
A man who, by diving into a sharkinfested sea to save a little girl, earned a pardon and release from Devil's Island enabling him to return to France before his 10-year sentence had been served, is shortly to come up for trial again at Aix en Provence. He is Louis Sehossmann, and lie has had an adventurous life. During the war his conduct was heroic. He was badly wounded and finally pensioned off. He returned to his old life and in 1923 was sentenced to 10 years at Devil's Island on a charge of criminal assault and theft. In that dreaded penal colony his conduct was exemplary and one day he dived to the rescue of a little girl who was struggling in the sea, where sharks swarmed. For this he received a reward of 4000 francs and a pardon. Free, he returned to France, became a Salvation Army lecturer and then a male nurse. Then, at Nice, he found trouble again.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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165A CONVICT'S HEROISM. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)
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