ARREST AFTER FREEDOM
MAN FROM DEVIL’S ISLAND On the arrival: at Boulogne recently of the steamer Maid of Orleans, the police arrested a TTenchntan named Vacber, who had just served a term of imprisonment in nngland. The arrested man, who is 63 years of age, was sentenced to hard labour and recommended for deportation at "■hrylebone Police Court, London, last January for thefts of baggage from motor-cars. He had been sent to Devil’s Island (French Guiana), “for life” by the French Criminal Courts in 1913. Four years later he broke out and crossed tbe border into Dutch Guiana, where he worked for two years in the forests. From Venezuela lie worked his passage on a sailing • ship to Bordeaux. After making his way across France, he sailed from Dieppe on a fishing vessel and landed secretly at Southend. In London he found employment for several years in restaurants; but when he was unemployed, starvation drove him to crime. For months Re made a living by stealing baggage from motor-cars, ac. cording to evidence given at his triaL
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12659, 20 January 1927, Page 4
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