ITALIAN HIGHWAYMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 6

ITALIAN HIGHWAYMEN.

■\ Uick Tropin incident has taken place inthe celelvated woods that link Boca di j'ar/a with Arricefa. on the Alban Hills, near Rome. A .steward named Campagiioni was travelling on norsebacl; with £'6oo to pay a squad of woodmen employed in felling tree--. <.n the estate of the Ruchof Si'ia'/.a, wli: u he was suddenly confronted liv hii;ir.vaynicii. who were masked ;l nd well' armed. ' The steward met the demand that lie. .should hand over his money by spurring his horse and dashing off.' lie'was slightly wounded by a .--hot that wa-s fired rftor'him as he lied. The hiVdiwiYmen then made a short cut through the wood and waited the oncoming horseman at a bend in the road some distance nwav As the steward dashed by he was shot" lead. Some laborers near by heard a oiercing cry, but as it was raining hard at' the time 'they took do further notice. The murderers are still at large, and are unidentified. They were to some extent foiled in their robbery, for C'ampagnoni had carefully hidden the greater part of the money in his boots, and these the highwaymen overlooked. The crime wag committed in a district noted ior_ its enchanting scenery, and despite the fact that it is infested by brigandish vagabonds is much frequented by English-speaking tourists. It was here that a brutal outrage was committed 071 some Scottish students a couple of years ago, and it was also the scene of an earlier attack on and robbery of the Duke Weimar.—-'Daily Chronicle's* Rome correspondent.