BANDIT CONDEMNED
DEATH SENTENCE FOR CORSICAN. TERRORISED ISLAND INTERIOR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Bastia, March 6. Andre Spada, the Corsican bandit who for 11 years terrorised, the interior of the island, was sentenced to death and will be guillotined despite his counsel’s ringing appeal, audible to the joyous carnival crowds outside. “Surely you don’t want blood to flow in the public square at the dawn of a spring day. Remember Spada’s chivalry to his old parents, who anxiously await the verdict.” During the trial a laughing Columbine, hoisted on the shoulders of a medieval musketeer, peered into the court to catch a glimpse of the bandit who stood silent. He nodded solemnly as the prosecutor demanded his head for the honour of Corsica, denying that he was anything but a racketeer dishonouring all banditry, if an honourable bandit ever ’existed.
Spada received the verdict with a smile.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1935, Page 5
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