CORSICAN BRIGAND
Surrender to the Police
Francois Bornea, the last Corsican brigand lit large, who has surrendeied to police, is only 29 years of age. Ho joined the French Navy when 18, states the Ajaccio correspondent of the “Times.” Subsequently, he became a gendarme and was appointed a dock policeman at Toulon in 1927. He was dismissed for misconduct a year later, and opened a smithy in Corsica. Allying himself with brigands, he blackmailed a local carrier till he drove him out of business, and in the course of time laid the whole district under tribute. In 1930 he shot u road-mender dead for not getting out of the way of his motor-car.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 5
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113CORSICAN BRIGAND Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 230, 11 September 1934, Page 5
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