DEPORTATION FOR ITALIAN CRIMINAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 31

DEPORTATION FOR ITALIAN CRIMINAL

; REMARKABLE EXPLOITS r j ! CITY BANK SURROUNDED : j When they left prison recently. 1 i after serving heavy sentences three l | Italian criminals were again arrested 1 j and placed aboard a steamer which ' j left Sydney tor Italy. r | Two of the foreigners, Gioli Martini * ; and Giovanni Gucci, both aged 31 L years, were members of a clever gang - iof safebreakers which operated with ' ; considerable success in Sydney in 1926. The police were baffled for soxn** 5 months, but early on the morning of ' August 1, 1926, they made a great 2 coup. * The alarm having been given by a watchman at the branch of the Union 2 i Bank of Australia, Limited. at 176 | Castlereagli Street, city, a strong force * iof detectives hastened to the bank. * j Every exit was guarded, and several 2 ! of the detectives entered the building * j with their revolvers drawn. * In a room above the bank premises they arrested three Italians who were hiding beneath tables and other articles s j of furniture. 1 1 It was subsequently discovered that a portion of the floor of the room above . the counting house of the bank had ' been sawn away and a rope ladder had been lowered into the bank. The detectives had arrived just in time to prevent the entry to the bank, in 3 the strongroom of which there vas \ more than £IO.OOO. A remarkable kit of safebreakiug _ implements was found nearby. A. t the Quarter Sessions on September J. e 1926 Martini, Lucei. and another Italn ian were sentenced to terms ranging up x to four years. The police coup lad L the effect of breaking up the clever ' ! gang of cracksmen. Martini and Lucei came within the n ! regulations governing deportations, r but the third Italian could not be d*-*-o i ported, as he had been living in New , South Wales for more than three years * ; prior to liis arrest. r The third man deported was Franceseo Sebastionelli, aged 2S years, a f r waiter. He was a member of a gang of shop-breaker*. 1