FROM DEVIL ISLAND
ESCAPE OF FRENCH PRISONERS (Australian Press Association.) Taris, September 5. The Minister of the Colonies has been tadvlsed that Dr. Bougrat escaped from the dread penal settlement of Devil Island, together witli two other prisoners undergoing. life sentences. They escaped in a hollowed-out tree trunk secretly obtained from a Chinese merchant. They are heading down the treacherous Guiana coast, where many escaped prisoners have been swallowed up in quicksands or eaten by sharks. Should they reach Brazil they must fight their way through hundreds of miles of treacherous jungle.
[Dr. Bougrat, a medical man of Marseilles, was convicted of the murder of a patient for his money in March, 1927, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Bougrat was shown to have committed several crimes to get money for his mistress, Mlle. Andrea Audibert. The Isle du Diable is on the coast of French Guiana in one of the wildest parts of tropical South America.]
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 11
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