LIFE SENTENCE
DESPERATE CRIMINAL
ITALIAN BANDIES CAREER
(Received 4th May,.!) a.m.) ROME, 2nd May. Santa Pollastro, one of the most notorious bandits in Italian criminal history, head of a famous gang of burglais, was sentenced to life impKisonment for the second time for the mmdc? of a bank cashier at Tortona' in 1922. He was previously sentenced,-to lifo for the same crime while a fugitfeie. Pollastro also murdered two detectives in Milan in 1927 and two carbinecera at Lominella in 1928. He twico fled to Paris, where lie was arrested on an underground railway* platform, after a desperate straggle with a detective. Ho was sentenced in France to fifteen years' imprisonment for forty robberies, but Sifrnor Mussolini ' demanded his extradition, Avluich was granted on the condition that Pollastr.o should bo returned to Prance after his Italian sentences.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 9
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137LIFE SENTENCE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 9
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