Star.
London, England, 1828-02-14 00:00:00

BOLOGNA, JANUARY 27.•

The following trial took place here a slime time since :
V. Juiseppe, aged 24, was put to the bar and indicted
for various crimes—namely, nitirder..robbery, .arsou,
and rape. This individual is the son of. a respectable
manufacturer; it was the intention of :his parents 'diet
he should follow the same business which had procured
for them a competency, but the youth would not listen
to gOod advice; he enlisted in the army, and at tbeage
of 17 left the paternal tool. He soon grew tired-J(4 a
military life, deserted, and having no means of existence,
connected himself with some of the most determinedhan.
ditti who infest this country and the n. ighbouring sates.
Young Juiseppe, posseving a superior mind, soon be--
CALM the chief of these outlaws, over whom he obtained
the greatest authority ; the number of his followers is
'stated to exceed fifty, and most of them had previously
to the period when Juiseppe joined them, been guilty
of atrocious crimes. The young bandit made a comple e
alterationia. the system which they had heretcforepar-
sued, and he became, in a few maul.% the pi ototrpw of
the celebrated robber and murderer, Schinderra nesoeho
was eiecuted at Cologne in 1808, together with 17
.qfbis
comrades. In the mountainous and desolate places w•
ate to be met with in the various districts selectedthy.
Juiseppe for iris scene of action, it is not surprisinediat•
he citified for many years the pursuits of justice. !Toni.
deter mined bandit., at-hhe head of his troop, was:in the
custom of attacking, robbing, and murdering the un- •
suspicious traveller, whilst rroceeding" on his journey ;
but the grand booty they madegenerallr arose from the
pliadesing isolate fat m houses. To effect ihia, they
Aniost always marched in a body of '2O, conveying with
them a laige trunk of .a tree, which served them in lies
44 haltering ram; With this powirtirl machine one blow.
tvas sufficient to shiver to atoms the strongest (foil., and
when by these s-
meantheY bad obtained admission into
the premises, it was their invariable Custom to light up
as many candlei, torched, us famps, as could be pro-
cured, for the purpose ofieeing is a fay minutes what
the house contained ; if.tbeee wretches were disappointed
in their.expectations, they, nct unfrequeody had recourse
to ciiindeltanest plan—namely, dragging the unfortu-
nate liberates before a large fire;, and pinning their feet
or liana, untillhey either aclcnowledgett where their va.
loableurtleles were secreted,or till the u nfortuna re people
terminated their erstencr in horrid tortures: On the_e
occasions the Juni% females belonging to the different
establishments became victims to the brutality of the
banditti, and some of these poor creatures were carried
off to administer to Om wants and gratify the passions of
these ruffians. The 'Police endeavoured, its vain, to
arrest-Juiseppe, or some of his followers; the latter-were
se well served„even by some. persons belonging to the
Police, whom they, of course,,supplied with largeosess
of money, that they always escaped. At length, colas-
plaints because so general, that it was resolved to seed
out several strong escorts in pursuit of them. Jaistt
w•
ith three of his principal men, were taken in a
inn, whither, after committing a recent murdet, they
had repaired& anfkliaviarpartakeatrio freely of spiritu-
ous liquor:4 tbeurertin a sound sleep when the militeix
arrived. It was proved, on. the best evidencer, that,slui-
seppe ad. hiii.tlAe followers 'had been guilty of patsy
murders:3l*y weie, accordingly, settenked to death. A
young female, 'who 'was present at the Arial, shrieked
most dteadiall y when _the awful sentence was passed.
It. was ascertained that the nufvriursargyersoubeftheen
seduced by'Juiseispe, and, unacquaihted with his real
mode of living, bad become extremely attached to bits.