CONVICTS BID FOR FREEDOM.

Western Star, 8 December 1933, Page 4

CONVICTS BID FOR FREEDOM.

BY TIDE. A break • for , freedom from the French penal colony at Cayenne,'French Guiana, by Oscar. Walker, .was frustrated by the tide. For 16 days he had eluded his pursuers, ~ exciting the countryside with reckless effort's to "get through to his native Dutch Guiana. He slipped through,a cordon of police placed around Georgetown, tramped 80 miles to New Amsterdam, stole a policeman's bicycle* and vode 40 miles to the border town of Springlands, stole a bloat arid . attempted.to cross'the Corentyne. River to Nickerne. The tide cut short his flight, however, carrying him down the river to where the police were waiting for him.

' BAD EXAMPLES. . Mistress (to new maid) : 'I hope, Ann, you won't copy the things I wear., Maid: 'Oh, .no, indeed, ma'am. I like my things up-to-date.' . . ■ ESCAPE. . i ; Explorer : '.Once, a lion was so hear to me that I could feel his breath on my neck.' Friend:. 'What did you do?' Explorer: 'Pulled up my coat collar.' THE ONLY TIME Warder (looking for a trusty convict to perform a small' task outside of the prison) : 'James Murphy, have you ever been outside of the* walls?' Murphy: 'Oh yes, sor: 1 was bor'rn outside.' •# THE METHOD. Actor : 'Yes my friends, usually my audiences are glued to their . seats.' Friend ; 'What a quaint way of keeping them there !' I THE CANVASSER, 'Have you any windows to clean or floors to wash?' asked the tramp. 'Dear me!' replied (he Hdv, -voq* don't look like « man that would clean windows or wash floors.' 'Oh, no.' said the wanderer, Tin looking for work for my wife.* Mr Stanley Baldwin deeli.es that no man is good enough to bo dictator of Britain.—The real danger is that there a:e so many who are bad enough.