The Portland daily press., 1895-01-19
A RECENT REVOLT.

Occasionally one finds in the Paris
papers a paragraph like the following
from recent number of the Petit Jour
nal: s,ss
"The governor of Guiana has just adj
dressed a report to the government, stat
ing that the convicts on the lies de
Salut, melted by the Anarchists confined
there, revolted on the nights OF the 2lst
and 22d of October, struck down, and
killed two guards-Mosea and Cfetellaz--
killed ali overseer and seriously wounded
two others. 1t was necessary to call out
all the troops to quell the revolt, which
threatened to become successful, and
in the brief struggle twelve of the exlles
persisted.
It appears that an Anarchist named
PM was the ringleader in this revolt.
He found it easier to work upon the
feelings Of the newly arrived prisoners.
who were super excited by the rude
sufferings Of the voyage and the first
glimpses of the terrible life which they
must thenceforth lead, than those in
whom all hope of escape had long since
died."
For convicts to escape alive from the
mainland or island colonies in French
Guiana is rare, and there is but one case
of any having reached civilization
again.
ESCAPED, BUT RECAPTURED.
Two years ago four felons, criminals of
the most hardened type, succeeded in
eluding the vigilance of their guads one
night and escaping. They were Paul
Parizot, Henri Helyot, Cahmuzeau and
one other, who died upon the march
through the forest. They had been ban
ished to settlement some distance from
the coast, on the Maroni river, which
| divides French from Dutch Guiana. By
means of raft they proceeded down this
river for some distance and then struck
into tine dense tropical forest. There
| they wandered for twenty--three days,
! armed with nothing but clubs and beset
| by dangers on every hand.
AT night they lit fires to brighten away
| the savage beasts and monkeys and SER
| pents with which the forests swarmed.
When their provisions were exhausted
! they lived on herbs and fruits and after
nnspeakable hardships the three above
named succeeded in reaching Paramaribo
the capital of the Dutch possessions.
There they were arrested by the Dutch
| authorities, who set them to work In
| the gold mines. Chamuzeau was the
| first to escape and reached the coast.
where he embarked in little boat and
drifted out to sea. For many days he
lived on raw fish and drank brackish
water until more dead than alive, he was
picked up by an English tramp steamer
| which landed him in New York. He
finally reached Antwerp and, shortly
afterwards Paris where he resumed his
old profession of HOUSEKEEPING, and, for
a..time escaped arrest.
Chamuzean's two companies also es-
capped from their Dutch captors, and
Parizot reached Guatemala, where-the
country being in full revolutlon-he
took service ON an insurgent vessel as
engineer, and later as locomotive ire
man. Having sa we'd 200 francs, and be-
ing homesick for France and Paris, the
scene of his former exploits he returned
from that city, arriving about TWO
months ago.
His savings were almost spent, when
one day he met face to face on the
Boulevard Montmartre, his former COM
rade Helyot, whom he had believed dead.
Together they resumed their old trade
of thieving, and four weeks later as
they were going along the Rue Colbert,
they were stopped by two incuisitive
cited by the bulky packages they were
carrying and by their suspicious conduct.
They were taken to the Prefecture OF
Police and there recognized.
On hearing his sentence of deportation
to French Guiana for twenty years,
I Parizot remarked nonchalantly; "oh
I'll get away again. You can't keep me
there"