TWICE SENTENCED
TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT NOTORIOUS ITALIAN BANDIT (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 4th May, 8. 35 a.m.) ROME 2nd May. Santa Pollastro, one of the most notorious bandits in Italian criminal history, and head of the famous gang of burglars was sentenced to life imprisonment for the second time for the 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 Lominella in 1928. He twice fled to Paris where he was arrested on an underground platform after a desperate struggle with a detective. He was sentenced in France to 15 years’ imprisonment for forty robberies, but Signor Mussolini demanded extradition which was granted conditionally on. Pollastro being returned to France after serving his Italian sentences.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 May 1931, Page 5
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