FROM DEVIL’S ISLAND
CONVICT’S DESPERATE ESCAPE
STIRRING ADVENTURES IN DUTCH GUIANA AND LONDON
(Received Jan. 3, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. An extraordinary story of a convict’s escape from Devil’s Island, the world’s most dreaded penal settlement off the Coast of French Guiana was told when Louis Vaclier was imprisoned for a year for theft. Vaclier told the police he had been sentenced for life for a trivial offence in 1913. He escaped in 1917 and after many adventures he worked for an aluminum company in Dutch Guiana-. Later he went to Venezuela, from where he worked his passage in a sailing vessel to Bordeaux. Thence he went to Dieppe landing secretly in England from a fishing boat in 1920. He worked in London restaurants for four years until January, when lie alleges starvation drove him to crime.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10193, 4 January 1926, Page 5
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