A letter from Rome, in the Perseveranza of Milan, relateß the following audacious attack : — " Since the murder of the two clerks of M. Baldini, the money-changer, another robbery has been committed under singular circumstances. A priest, when returning home in the evening, was stopped by a band of thieves, who began to rifle his pockets. While so occupied, the rascals, perceiving a French patrol approaching, compelled the priest to intone a portion of the Litany, which he did, they kneeling round him meanwhile and devoutly responding Ora pro nobis ! The soldiers taking them for a group of devotees, many of whom thus pray in public, paseed on j and the moment they were out of sight the thieves completed their operation, andUeit the priest without a single bajooco. What is the Jjey-BQfce of jpoUteaepsP— B
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 224, 5 March 1866, Page 2
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