DEVIL'S ISLAND
GERMAN WHO ESCAPED SHORT-LIVED LIBERTY. BERLIN. Sept. 23 Sentenced in Paris in 1930 to imprisonment for life on Devil's Island for murder, Paul Schenk, a German citizen, escaped from the penal settlement after serving 17 months and made his way back to Germany,, only to be rearrested. At the Essen Assizes to-day the man was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in a German gaol.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21921, 3 October 1934, Page 11
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