FATE OF CONVICTS
REPORTS DEATH IN STEAM JACKETS. United Press Association—By Electric Tel egraph —Copyright ALGIERS. December 7. Forty convicts are reported to have been killed as a result of suppressing with steam jackets from the boilers a mutiny aboard the convict ship La Martiniere. which left Martin de Re on December 1 with 250 felons for Devil's Island, including a matricide and three other murderers. The vessel, after shipping 394 additional convicts at Algiers, resumed her voyage to Guiana. DENIAL OF Rl'MOl R. STATEMENT BY CHIEF OF POLICE United Prc:s Association—Bv Electric TeleLraph—Copyright ALGIERS, December 8. The Chief of Police emphatically denies the reported mutiny and the killing of forty convicts by Jets of steam on the convict ship La Martin - iere. Actually only one convict- was dissatisfied with the food. He and two others threatened the ship's doctor, but discipline was soon restored.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19670, 12 December 1933, Page 16
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