FAMOUS BANDIT SHOT
SIX TIMES CONDEMNED TO DEATH PARIS, March 26. Caslelli, the most famous of tho Corsican bandits, hasjjusb been shot dead by some person unknown. He began dais career in 1907, when thirty jears old, by a murder for which he was imprisoned for five years. Since then he had lived in the maquis, or wilds of the island, and in the succeeding; twenty years he was condemned by default six times to death and twice to penal servitude for life ns a punishment for murders or attempted murders. One of these was the" assassination or the daughter of an enemy, and her body lay unburied for many days until gendarmes hurriedly buried it, as Castelli had forbidden the villagers, on pain of death, to touch it.
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Evening Star, Issue 20139, 2 April 1929, Page 6
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129FAMOUS BANDIT SHOT Evening Star, Issue 20139, 2 April 1929, Page 6
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