BANDITS TRIED IN SICILY
LONG SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright) cir-fo-irv.' » PALERMO, May 20. Screaming women tore their hair lud2 h f ir d c ' ot . hin S a 8 a black-cloaked h^, S e O nl oday ir VP? sed sentences totalnflS th 27 Z e ? rs . on 34 7? * J? st „ of Sicily’s Bandit Kmg, Salvatore Giuliano ? = o f ! : r !? ed . p< £ lce . fllled the Court and nei Shbouring streets as the last blow was delivered to the gang which held Western Sicily at its mercy for fpur years. Wives, mothers and sisters of the bandits, hedged into the corner of the Courtroom by a double row of armed Police, burst into a pandemonium of gr *e f as the sentences were read. T w° of the bandits were sentenced to life imprisonment, 15 of them to smaller sentences. w J re held responsible for the killing of more than 100 police and hundreds of other crimes. The band was broken up by Colonel Ugo Luca, a Carabinieri officer sent Government to Sicily with 2000 picked men. y ♦ h JJ n a l ear to hunt Giuliano K his death and to round up or kill his 50 followers.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27047, 23 May 1953, Page 2
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