FORTUNES OF FATE
ESCAPED CONVICT RECAPTURED. BY C VBLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Jan. 12. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that a detective, who seized a man who was attempting to pick his pocket, found that he had arrested the notorious convict Soucket, who in 1913 escaped from the penal settlement at Cayenne with three companions. They built a raft, on which they made good their escape, hut only Souchet survived. He reached British Honduras, where he became a prosperous planter, but lost his money gambling en route to France, and turned pick-pocket.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1925, Page 5
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