ESCAPE OF A BANDIT
POLICEMAN FATALLY INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rome, Dee. 10. The policeman shot by Ballastro has succumbed. The police, on a special punsuing engine, failed to catch the murderer. A cable published last week stated: Fascist militia and a battalion of infantry are scouring a terror-stricken countryside, aearcliing for a bandit named Ballastro and his gang. They are suspected of having murdered a young Fascist, Nino Cavarino, at Ventimiglia, two carabinieri at Milan, and two gendarmes, Sommaschino and Gerby, whose bodies were found at Camporotra while the funeral of Cavarino was taking place.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1926, Page 9
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