BRIGANDS ON TRIAL
SICILIAN ROUND-UP ASSIZE SITS IN CAGE (Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received October 19, noon). LONDON, Oct. 18. The Daily News' Palermo correspondent reports that inside a huge iron cage the Assize Court, guarded scores of carabineers, sat i < try l~>? Sicilian' brgands, headed by tho enlorious old Perrarello, with his piivnte pang of 50 and rlie renin vi« 3 or ft her ga'Mgsl The piiKOwrs include a doctor. :•'! engineer, two priests, and seven «oi:eh, including the agvt Queen «>r Gaugi, who i* the mother •:•£ live "t' the 'prisoners named Andaloro. Brigands have ruled the interior for 50 years, Perrarello. disputing for 'he chieftainship with Palazzoln until a jealous ,brother-in-law knifed and uiurhcrcd Palazzolo.
The cleanup was due to llie energy of the new Fascist prefect. Determined to re-establish a reign of law he captured the outfit after four months' siege. Sixty lawyers have been engaged for the defence, and a three months' trial is anticipated.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16474, 19 October 1927, Page 7
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