A MODERN MONTE CHRISTO
CRIMINAL'S CANOE A COFFIN.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, June 25. (Received June 27, at 5.5 p.m.) After 12 years of liberty. Albert Juge, who ©scaped from-the French penal settlement at Cayenne, has been recaptured. He was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude in 1907, and escaped in circumstances recalling Dumas's "Monte Chris to." He went to the cemetery during the night and disinterred a coffin," which he used as a canoe, and by this means escaped to French Guiana. Thence he made his way to Brazil, where he made a competence bv honest toil. Homesickness made him attempt a visit to his mother in Paris, but after he had been home a fortnight, neighbours denounced him, and lie "was sent back to Cayenne to complete his sentence. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17973, 28 June 1920, Page 5
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