NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1921, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

KING UF BRIGANDS. PARIS, April 1. King of the baudits of Corsica, Natallueei, a brigand long wanted by the police, lias just met his death alter a thrilling fight, it was his love for a women whose husband he had killed that brought him to his doom.

The sergeant of a lonely police post had received information that the redoubtable mountain robber was in the habit of visiting a woman on the outskirts of the village of Appieto, near Ajaccio, the Corsican capital. At sunset the sergeant posted his men behind trees, while he went up to the door and knocked. Tfce woman refused to open, and the brigand slipped out of the back door.

The police, hidden behind the trees, opened fire, and the bandit replied with shots from an automatic pistol. The sergeant dashed round the liou.se and met the brigand face to face, Tho men were but a foot apart. With one shot Natallucci laid the sergeant dead and dashed on. Policemen ran out from their ambush, and after a few shots tho brigand dropped dead. Natallucci was one of the old type of mountain rangers celebrated in song and fiction.

MOUNT EVEREST CLIMB. LONDON, May 24. The last consignment of supplies for tho Mount Everest expedition leaves England to-day. Mr Harold Reaburn, the lender of the survey party, left England for Tndia last week, and Captain G. Finch, another member of the party leaves within a few days. Both will join Major Morshead’s party at Darjeeling, Bengal, the jumping-off point for the conquest of the world’s highest mountain. A preliminary reconnaissance will he mado this year, and in the summer of noxt year the attempt to scale the mountain will he made.