KING OF CRIME.
DEVLL'S. ISLAND ESCAPEE. ,i ,■ ". LONDON, April %. Eddie Guerin, ,. a criminal with a remarkable career, appeared before the ..Westminster ; . BQlice. Court yesterday, charged with tassault. He threw corrosive sublimate m the face of one map, and beat another with fire-irons. Guerin acquired' fame a few years ago Jjy escaping from Devil's Island, the terrible French prison where Dreyfus was imprisoned! He 'had been found guilty m ITrancer'of Tobbing an American express company, and transported to 3Je^!l^lslSHo!7^ensencedr to imprison-, ment for life. He. escaped from the island, helped ; by friends m New York, »who supplied mbhey to bribe the ward°ers, and hired a tramp steamer, to take hun away.^ -J^'^reached Loridbn' where , he « vvaß-tar«sßtedsX*.but ; ' the 1 authorities ; -would not^c^xtradite him, as it was held -tfaftt he wa« » British subject. : « -GueTin' opfeffed*~S tbbaccoriist's ''.shop' m -London^ and announced that' he 'jiad been Shortly afterwards several rbig robberies took' place. Guerin was arbuf*notiiirig"was 'proved against • him. .^ .;■ ..':;A'.;'" •!'? '• ■; ••' •. ■'•
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 9
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156KING OF CRIME. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 9
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