Word: albina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist Government thus guarded the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, Lord Ashbourne, because she is known to have been insane since childhood and it was feared that she might attempt suicide, as she did last year in a moment of religious excitement...
...Investigation disclosed that the woman thus spared was the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Psychologists wearily pointed out that, like so many actual assassins, she was not only demented but known to be demented not only by her family but by all who knew...
...Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes, he travelled by canoe through the heart of the tropical forests of Dutch Guiana to the Cottoca River, and on to Paramaribo, the end of his trip...