A NOTORIOUS BANDIT.
Vivillo the notorious Andalusian brigand announces that be “will rea tire from his hazardous profession and become an honest man. ” His concluding ieat by which he has obtained the means to become “ honest" is not without humour. He appealed at the house of Senor Tescano, a wealthy Seville landowner, in the uniform ot a lieutenant, with six mounted constables, and told that gentleman that he was in pursuit of ths bandit Vivillo. He was asked to stay to dinner and his men were entertained- in the kitchen. At the conclusion of the meal, the
; lieutenant ’ thanked his host, announced that he was the bandit Vivilio, and asked which he knew Senor 1 oscano had brought from Seville the previous day. That gentleman had no alternative but to p.ay the money. Some of Vivillo’s followers recently kidnapped the son of a rich landowner at Cartama, a village in the Malaga, hid him in a cave, and sent a letter to the lather demanding a ransom of
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2317, 15 January 1906, Page 5
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168A NOTORIOUS BANDIT. Dunstan Times, Issue 2317, 15 January 1906, Page 5
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