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They went back to the van. Before resuming the journey they made a routine inspection of the small compartment in which their prisoners were supposedly locked. In the floor they found a small, carefully sawed hole through which René the Stick (and his friend) had once more slipped to freedom. Remembering that promise about Christmas, the gendarmes rushed to René's apartment and arrested his wife Marinette...
...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...