FOUR STRAGGLERS
CAMEOS OF DEVIL’S ISLAND By delivering four letters to tragic families in various European countries, Mr. W. Allison-Booth, the man who puropsely wrecked himself on the dreaded Devil’s Island, has “brought back” four forgotten men.
He originally visited the isle to gain at firsthand the knowledge the whole world craved for ... the truth about the grim penal settlement. And when he sailed from St. Laurent to France he carried, with him four human documents.
They were all letters from convicts to their wives and sweethearts, first words after years and years of silence. “My first letter took me to a beautiful chateau outside Nantes, the home of the ragged and unkempt wretch Gaston, who had wished me ‘Bon Voyage’ at St. Laurent!” “For years Gascon’s mother had anxiously waited a letter. Now she lay on her death bed ... too ill to be shown the letter her son had enclosed for her.”
In a little village outside St. Omer a broken-hearted woman received a message from her son. “She told me its contents. Her boy ]jad written asking his younger brother Pierre to do all he could to bring happiness to his mother.” But the poor woman broke into a terrible fit of laughter. Pierre himself had been sent to Guiana a year ago!
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19340317.2.14
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1934, Page 3
Word Count
215FOUR STRAGGLERS Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1934, Page 3
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.