CAPTURE OF CORSICAN BANDITTI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2230, 23 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

CAPTURE OF CORSICAN BANDITTI.

A famous highwayman named Joachim Mevinti has been captured near Cistellau by the Coi>ican gendarmeiie under the following 1 circumstances : — His track was discovered at the villago of Pi.mo, and iv the evening a squad of gendarmes had surrounded him, and wove about to take him a prisoner, when ho turned round unexpectedly and discharged the two barrels of his gun at his pursuers, without, however, hitting anybody. A gendarme named Viucenti engaged in a fierce encounter with Mesanti, and both rolled down a steep incline of seventy feet. It was pitch dark, and the other gendarmes were not aware of the terrible position of their comrade. On hearing his desperate cries for help they came up in time to save his life and to pinion Mesanti. Almost at that moment a company of gendarmes from St. Andrea di Bozio, under a Captain Vinciguerra, were chafing another bigand namei Giuseppe Maria Ciattoni, who had been recognised in the neighbourhood of Sermano, His hiding placo was discovered and his retreat was cut off. Seeing this he resolved to sell his life dearly, and levelled his gun at the Ciptain, who was at the head of his men, but misled him. M. Vinciyfuorrt immediately discharged his revolver on Ciattoni with fatal effect.