PETER THE JUMPER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11774, 29 October 1912, Page 2

PETER THE JUMPER.

MAN WHOM THE POLICE CANNOT T HOLD. /

The Spanish police, acting cm instructing frcm Pari-, have arrested at Barcelona t modem Jack Sheppard. a Ficnehiniin. His name is Joseph Llmare- but he is better known,as "Peter the Jumper," a nickname g.vcn linn on accumt of his extraord-nary at"iiliiiairs is n\ent\-fhe ycais old now. He has lived a consistent life of crurie since he was s.xleen,, was sentenced to death in 1905. and has .-mce been arretted and escaped at least seventeen times. The pnli-e of no country stem able to hold him. His fii*t murder was tliai of a man named Boualni. nho had paid court to a woman named Fifine". whom he- had honored with his attentions L''nrr.>s mot him in the street and stabbid him six timc= , " , The police arretted him a tew <la\s later, and Llinare» was sentenced to death. 'The pi milt v M« altered to penal servitude for hfr. After his arrival in French Guiana, Litres foimod a band of desperadoes amen": m« <on-vic-ts there, and after extraordinary adventures pot clear away. Thev stole a-boat and hid it. _Uu tho night of their escape 11-e gentries gave the alarm and kilbd of them, but tho others managed, to ge,t <mt ot range. , . , , • , , Thev rowed for twenty-a:trht lughts down tJif River Natron i, ludrag b >■ day Theii. without .weapons and without clothes, fhey marched seventeen <Uve acrosi a v:retn forest On their wjv twe of the band quarrelled and one of them was killed. Evnituallvrtbo desperadoes got to La Guavra, and remained there until the cmuilrv got too hot to hold them. In 1910. in the course of a burglary, Llinares fell, broke .an arm and two ribs, and was taken prisoner. He escaped from hospital, "taking two of the nurses with him-, 'and disappearediiutol uin» daTs ago, \iheii th» woman Fifine informed the Dolice that she, lmd received letters from-him telling nor to meet him in Barcelona, wheie he y\as •roiiiK to build an hotel and crow rich. The soman's information led to Llinares' arrest * As a, matter of fact, lie was arrested twice. The first time he escaped up the chimnev of the guard-room across the roof and was not retaken for three hours.' ■ .