ITALIAN BANDIT
SENTENCE OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT HEAD OF FAMOUS RANG Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, May 2. (Received May 4, at 9 a.m.) Santa Pollastro, 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 tho murder of a bank cashier at Tortona in 1922. He was previously sentenced to life imprisonment for the same crime while a fugitive. Pollastro also murdered two detectives at Milan in 1927, and two carabineers at Lomello in 1928. Ho twice fled to Paris, where he was arrested on an underground platform after a desperate struggle with a detective. Ho was sentenced in Franco to fifteen years’ imprisonment for forty robberies, but Signor Mussolini demanded his extradition, which was granted conditionally on Pollastro being returned to France after serving the Italian sentences.
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Evening Star, Issue 22783, 4 May 1931, Page 11
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