PRISON TRAGEDY

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12091, 28 June 1920, Page 5

PRISON TRAGEDY

United'Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. : PARIS, June 25. After twelve years of liberty, Albert Juge who escaped from a penal settlement at Cayenne, has been recaptured. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in 1907, and escaped in circumstances recalling Monte Cristo. He went to the cemetery during the night, disinterred a coffin, which he used as a cal 2°®> an “ escaped to French Guiana, and thence to Brail, where he made a competence by honest ■ toil. Homesickness made him attempt to visit his mother in Paris. After a fortnight a neighbour denounced Juge, and he was sent back -to Cayenne to complete his sentence.