The astounding outburst of savage crime in Sardinia (says the Chronicle’s Milan correspondent.) has determined the Government, to reoume their famous crusade against the hoiides of banditti will ch are roaming the , island,. Sir ong reinforcements of carabinieri ha ve been drafted into the Sassari province, ac corapanied by guides. they have carried out wholesale u aids on shops, public offices, and priv ate houses at Benetutti, Nule, Bulteli, and Osidda, where also nearly two hundred people of both higli and low estate were arrested ami hated off to the military barrack* in drains, charged with complicity wjttdi .brigand gangs. Another military patrol hunted down tide notorious bandit f chief Eurfisio Gessa and his, companions to a cave outside Sassari City. After a sharp fight 'with firearms the commander of the carabinieri, r s Jvot Gesso, dead), but his followers rnado good their escape, through a crot exit of -the cavern. Emile T&.mck, a German musician. Is awaiting his trial at *> ice lor bru " tally ill-treating' his wii’v- F or s^x months t 1 >a woman, under' the pretext of madness, had Ik W locked up in a' darkened room. Her husband each morning brought her miAk and bread„ IK kJi then left her unattended until, the following day. The disappearance of Frau Hauck had Ween reported t 6 the police soma ttime ago, the. Chronicle states, and they made a raid on the house, Itn a small garret, the shutters cf wl 'lich were barred and bolted, they for laid the woman covered with bruis <cs. Hoi- health is shattered, and in ct mse;i,uence of her imprisonment she h. is becom o weak-minded.
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Western Star, 9 October 1908, Page 3
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