Word: belbenoit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their fugitive ranks, for example, was recruited the international white-slave ring, operating chiefly in South America, which the League of Nations felt obliged to investigate...
With best-seller and lecture profits, Author Belbenoit a year ago bought a house on Long Island, married an American, increased his weight from 97 to his normal 110 lbs. But last week, defeated in his fight to win U. S. asylum, he was again a fugitive, somewhere in Central America...