DEVIL’S ISLAND ESCAPEES
AN ARDUOUS VOYAGE. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. February 22, S a.m.) PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad). February 21. Eight exhausted sun-blistered convicts reached here in an Indian dugout, after 16 days on a 750 mile journey, from an escape from Devil’s Island. They include three murderers, of unfaithful sweethearts, a bank robber, a jewel thief and three habitual criminals. They endured enormous suffering in a storm, and had insufficient, food. Under the new regulations of the Trinidad Government, they may- remain indefinitely. They formerly, would have been deported.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1937, Page 7
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