GIRL HOUDINI
escape THROUGH STEEL DOOlis. A feat rivalling thoSe of the.,late Houdini has just been accotoiplfshed by Marie Cnudde, a 26-year-bldJncfendiary, who has vanished from Versailles Prison. . , Convicted with her uncle of burning a farm to secure the insurance compensation,- Marie Cnudde was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. She. bad been working in. the- prison laiin-; dry. Her* absence was' noticed by a woman warder. The prison Was searched, but she. could not be found; and it was aftouheed that she mrist havo been assisted, in her escape by someone in the prison. The search for the girl was rendered particularly difficult because ..she, left tho prison in her ordinary clothes. She was permitted to •wear them because her caso was the subject of an appeal.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 3
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