GAOLBIRD’S FORTUNE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9072, 12 February 1908, Page 7

GAOLBIRD’S FORTUNE.

After spending half his life in prison or under 'police supervision, the convict Berelamo Pasquale, at the age of 49, now finds himself, through the death of an aunt, the owner of a great fortune, and the proprietor of villas at Oomo and at Gravedono. Pasquale was born in Milan, and came into the hands of the police at an early age. He was frequently arrested, and got his last sentence, one of four years’ imprisonment, iup9o6. While he was worki 2g in the prison colony on the island of Lampedusa, in April, news came of the death of his aunt, Giuseppina Pontiggia, to whom it was found he was [direct heir. The woman died intestate, and Pasquale, though he was her pet aversion, inherited the estate after oti er relatives had tried r in vain to prevent it. Pasquale has been released, and will not have to finish his term, which ordinarily would not be ended until 1910. ? He has married'a widow" with one son, and the first days after his marriage luxuriously in Oomo. Soon, however, he became home-sick for Lampedusa, where he returned and passed the greater part of his honeymoon in sight of the place where he had toiled as a convict. When he received the money one of his first actions was to send Lampedusa a great clock, which chimed the hours. The prisoners, he says, found almost unbearable on occasions the dark, unbroken silence of the nights of captivity, and would have been greatly relieved if they could have known how many hours had yet to pass before daylight. His plans for the future are modest. He intends, he says, to live on the revenue of his estates as an Italian gentleman, with his wife and adopted son.