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Otago Daily Times, Issue 285, 18 November 1862, Page 4

Colonel Cattabehb, —Th« Times correspondent give< the following account of the recent batik robbery at (irenoa, and the arrest of the aliened robber, Colonel Catlahene, one nf Garibaldi's trusty knights : —V Therrt is one move sorrowful episode iv -his Ixir:ba'dian affair, which I must pub down in writimi, and then I shtll have done. The tule.-raph informed you of a famous hank robbery perpetrated in full day light at the Hank of i'arodi, at Genoa, from. wliicn the suui of 800.0 Of. was carried away by might of avins. One of the persons arrested, as supposed" to be implicated in that daring deed, is ' Cohuel Uattaben*, one of the bravest officers in Guihaldi's staff. Cattabene, a native of Pesaro, belonging to a decent family, is covered with honorable wounds received iv battle, at Melazzoaud Caiazze. Thftve is no mnn more impetuously and heroically daring in the field. But he is said to be always hard up for money, being desperately addicted to gambling, a ha-bit he had in common with Nullo, and other (xiiribildians. Thar, his reduced fortunes may have driven him to so criminal an attempt is what mauy are still'loth-to believe, and there are also some who surmise that if he really had a hand in that affair, his object was not to" fill his own" pocket, but to procure means for ihe intended Garibaldian enterprise, and in one word, do evil tint g;od may come of it. He must now abide^his trial, aad the proi-e-dings aW carried on with the utmost secrecy. It is greatly to be hoped thut he miy clrar himself of so f»ul an imputation. # Meanwhile a rumour thtt either he, or hi-s fellow- prisoners were treated with hars'ine3-}, ha* been ofijciaily contra licteu upon liU own (Oatta!iene"sV {rood fvi lence. The day on wliic\ so brava a patriot misrht be declared innocent would be ahapoy one for Italy." ~._ .