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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4564, 9 December 1882, Page 4

Antonio Batistolli, a most notorious Corsican bandit, who has ■ been for many years the terror of the Monte Bonoso and the Monte d'Oro, in Corsica, has just mot with his death. For oomo time Batistelli belonged to the class of what the Oorsicans call "honest bandits " — that is to ear, ho ha-i killed a foo in a quarrel and had been obliged to fly from justice, living in the mountains upon what he could get from aympathotio frienda, and even by levying toll upon unsympathetio foeß. But of late ho had lapsed into ovil coursea, and had lost his title to bo considered an honest brigand by robbing tho inoffensive poasants of tho district. So it was rosolved that he must be put to death. An opportunity ocourrod on August 29, as Batistolli oaaed a doctor of his watch at the villago of Vivario, nnd was followed to a tavern, where he went to meet a fellow-brigand, named Oeriiti. Tho gendarmes, hoaded by aZouavo, who had boen wounded at Beichshofcn, surroundod tho tavern, but not in timo to prevent Corati making his escnpo into tho mountains. Eatiatelli, however, stood hia ground, and

fired several shots at the gendarmes, but none of them took effeot, and he had a ball put through his brain by the old Zouave, who, it is much feared by the peacefully disposed inhabitants of the district, will in his turn fall a victim to the vengeance of the defunot brigand's surviving friends.