CONVICTS' ORDEAL.
DEVILS ISLAND ESCAPEES
(Received 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 21 A message from Port of Spain, Trini dad, states that eight exhausted and sun-blistered ex-prisoners reached there in an Indian dug-out eanoe 16 days after escaping from the French penal settlement at Devil's Island, 750 miles away. The comprised three murderers, two of unfaithful fiancees, a bank robber, a jewel thief and three habitual criminals. They had suffered terribly from a storm and insufficient food. Under the new regulations of the | Trinidad Government the men may j Remain indefinitely. Formerly they would have been deported.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1937, Page 7
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