GUERIN’S CONVICTION
A SUCCESSFUL APPEAL LONDON, Tune 9. Guerin successfully appealed against his conviction. An expert asserted that Guerin had signed the cheques. The appeal partly turned on an anonymous letter written while Guerin was in custody, revealing another person as the forger., Guerin, who became famous in 1905 by escaping from Devil’s Island, was sentenced in London to three years’ penal servitude for receiving and uttering. Guerin, who is aged 70, seemed stunned by the sentence, and protested his innocence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21358, 11 June 1931, Page 10
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