DESPERATE CRIMINAL
Twice Sentenced to Life Imprisonment. " RECORD" OF MURDERS. (Received 10 a.m.) KOME. May 3. Santa- Pollaetro. one of the most notorious bandits in Italian criminal history and head of a famous gang of burglars, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the second time for the murder of a bank cashier at Tortona in 1922. Previously he was sentenced to life for the same crime. While a fugitive Pollastro murdered two detectives at Milan in 1927 and two carabineers at Lominella in 1928. Twice he fled to Paris, where he was arrested on an underground platform after a desperate struggle with a detective. He was sentenced in France to 15 years' for 40 robberies, but Mussolini demanded his extradition, which was granted conditionally jpn Pollastro being returned to France after the. Italian. sentences were passed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 7
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