DEVIL’S ISLAND RELEASE
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. April 2,2 p.m.) PARIS, April 1. Henri Bellon, a former Marseilles hairdresser, arrived at Havre, after 11 years on Devil’s Island, wher'e he was serving a life sentence, for a betray-ing-his-country charge, which has been proved to be wrong. He had been convicted on the evidence of a man who during 1926 appeared as a witness in the murder charge, but his evidence was found so outrageous that the Judge' ordered him from Court.
Bellon’s case, later, was reopened, and he was found entirely innocent. The authorities released him and gave him £4O compensation, which was just sufficient to pay his fare home.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 April 1929, Page 5
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