Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thin, sad Burglar René Girier was a slippery one, no doubt about it. Because of his attenuated form they called him René the Stick, and truly it sometimes seemed as though René could slip through holes that would stop a toothpick. In 1942 the Vichy police had picked him up for robbing a farm, and René had skipped across the border into occupied France. The Germans picked him up there and sent him to a labor camp in Berlin. Two weeks later he had escaped again and was back in Paris...
...French police arrested René once again. Locked up in prison, he feigned insanity and was ordered transferred at once to a psychiatric hospital at Villejuif. He walked out of the hospital with no trouble...
Three years after that, René Girier was picked up once again. This time he was tossed into sturdy Pont L'Eveque Prison. Five days later, he departed without ceremony by climbing over the wall...
Last September René was arrested on charges of robbing a mail truck, holding up a jewelry store and various other crimes. "I'll be seeing you at Christmas time," he told his wife confidently as they carted him off to the Sante Prison. Soon afterward he reported sick...
Last week prison officials put René and another prisoner into a tiny compartment in a type of prison van known as a "salad basket." With two armed guards sitting in the central aisle outside René's cell and another riding up front, the salad basket started off to the hospital prison at Fres-nes. They were in sight of the hospital when one of the guards looked back and saw a man rolling in the road behind. "Stop!" he called to the driver, "you've hit someone!" The van pulled to a halt. The guards leaped...