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...When the church bells began to ring and I started to read my prayer book, I would not be able to keep my place and I knew the devil was abroad, trying to interfere with my prayers," another of the women told the Recorder's interpreter...
TIME TO KILL-Rearden Conner- Knopf ($2.50). Character study of a pathological killer, written with lurid evocations of the bloody details, by the author of Shake Hands with the Devil...
...French possessions. Settled in 1626, it has been a French penal colony almost continuously since 1852. Half the present population (10,700) of Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, are convicts. Many thousands merely live in unbarred exile. Only a handful of the most desperate prisoners are actually confined on Devil's Island, one of the three "Safety Islands" off the Guiana Coast. Devil's Island's fame originated largely from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
...Besides Alfred Dreyfus' famed autobiography, the best known works on Devil's Island arc Condemned to Devil's Island and Free by Mrs. Blair Niles; Hell Beyond the Seas by Age Krarup-Xielsen; Au Bagne by Albert Londres...