FRENCH PENAL ISLAND.
v ELEVEN MEN ESCAPE. tUHITin PREB3 ASSOCIATION—BY BIJtCTBIO TELEGRAPH—COPTBIOBt.) 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 for six days and then a storm capsized the boat. Two of the men wet© immediately dragged down killed by Sharks, while the others righted the boat and scrambled back. They have just reached Trinidad, but will not be safe Unless the French authorities refrain from extradition proceedings for three months.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20010, 19 August 1930, Page 15
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