REMARKABLE CAREER.
CONVICT RELATES HIS ADVENTURES.
ESCAPE FROM DEVIL’S ISLAND. (Press Association —Copyright.) (Received 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2.—An extraordinary story of a convict’s escape from Devil’s Island, the world’s most dreaded penal settlement, off the coast of French Guiana, was told when Louis Vachcr was imprisoned for one year tor theft. .
Vaeher told the police that he was sentenced for life for a trivial offence in 1913. He escaped in 1917, and worked for an aluminium company w Dutch' Guiana. Later he went to Venezuela from where he worked his passage in a sailing vessel to Bordeaux, thence he went to Dieppe. Landing secretly in England from a fishing boat in 1920, he worked in London restaurants for four years until January, when he alleges starvation drove him to crime.—(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 4 January 1926, Page 5
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