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Newspaper
Brisbane Courier Mail
Location
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Date
Mar 08, 1939
Page
3
In a tense chapter, a narrator plans a daring break in Lausanne. After securing a letter, climbing a balcony and evading guardians, the escape leads to a tense confrontation with M Chardieu and a mysterious driver as pursuit resumes through riverside streets toward Geneva.
A Geneva based newspaper woman, Susan Brorkleby, is described in a muddled report as becoming involved in a national part matter and later being released. The fragment hints at poisoning allegations and a later admissible release, but specifics are unclear.
Constable J. Puller of Oxley reports a 130 am incident on Ipswich Road Wacol where a man dressed in pyjamas with white sheets wrapped around his feet asked for a lift to Brisbane. He was driven to Goodna Mental Hospital from which he had escaped Monday night. A second escapee from the hospital remained missing late last night. Described as 36 years old, about 6 feet 1 inch tall, brown hair grey eyes weight around 610 pounds, with a scar on the neck and a right wrist. He wore blue dungaree trousers grey shirt and black boots.
Douglas Sullivan a 42 year old law clerk of Lismore faced three charges at the Lismore Police Court for forgery uttering and false papers. He allegedly forged letters of administration to document probate and deceived solicitor David John Lobban with forged documents. The accused reserved his defence.
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