AN ITALIAN BANDIT
jUtneed Press Association.-~B> Electa n Telegraph—Copyright). (Received 9-5 a m.) ‘ ROME, May 2. Santa Polbistro, one of the most notorious bandits in Italian criminal history, and bead of a famous gting of burglars was sentenced to life imprisonment for the second time 'for the murder of a bank cashier at Tortona in 1922. He was previously sentenced to life imprisonment lor the same crime, while a fugitive. Pollastro murdered two detectives at M dan in 1927, and two Carabineers at L°minelja in 1928. He twice fled j;‘to Paris where he was arrested in an underground platform after a desperate struggle with a detective. He was sentenced in France to fifteen years’ imprisonment lor forty robberies, but Mussolini demanded his extradition, which was granted conditionally on Pollastro being returned to France after serving his Italian sentences.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 6
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138AN ITALIAN BANDIT Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 6
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