A Brigand’s Career.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 66, 12 November 1887, Page 2

A Brigand’s Career.

The Corsican Assize Court has just sentenced to penal servitude for life a young man of 25, named Martin Gaffori, who, in the course of the last four years, had committed several murders and about 50 acts of robbery with violence. His debut in crime was to break into the house of a farmer named Staffiano, in the company of two other men, and threaten to murder him if he did not make over to them a very large sum of money which they knew to be fn his posseasion. Two labourers who were in the house were wounded in the affray { Gaffori and his companions getting off scot-free. Soon after this one of his companions was captured by the gendarmes and the other uhot in trying to escape. Gaffori continued hia depredations and became the terror of all the country round. Upon one occasion he lard in ambush for the local magistrate, and madp him get off his horse and sign a judgment in favor of one of his (Gaffori’s) brothers, who had 1 , a lawsuit in progress before him. He took all the magistrate’s money from him, and seems so to have impressed the latter with the belief that he would be murdered if he lodged a complaint with the police that he did not venture t o do so until after Gaffori had been ar.rested. His next exploit was to rob a postman of the letters he was delivering, and it was not until the spring oi' tin’s year that he fell into the hands of the police.