CHAINED CONVICT
ESCAPES FROM l'lilS()\ PATHS, March 2d. The kov of n .sardine tin has, for the time being, saved .Marcel Henri, gangster, aged 28. from -going to ivvil’s Island for a life (lenience. Henri used a sardine-t in key to open the window of his cell in the huge \an which was taking him to l-’niileverault Prison, where, with other convicts, lie was to await the next vovuge of the Preach convict Clip, l.a M’art .ini ore, to the prison set tie men I in Pl'eneh Hniana. W’liile the van was speeding .along l hi' road Henri, despite I lie chains on his hands and -feet,,succeeded in worm dig his way through ilm half-open window. 'l'lien, as the van slowed down to tube a corner, he dropped into the grass by the roadside.
Henri, like a former Devil’s Island (.(inviei, Armand Hpiller, who escaped I'mm the Saule Prison a week ago. inis not yet been recaptured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 12
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157CHAINED CONVICT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 12
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