Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-07-15
Brigandage and Assassination in italy

CELL, SIX DT1gandS, armed with guns
pistols, and revolvers, attacked two
landowners Of Castelnoveto, named
Chiaramella and Ferretti, who were re-
turning in carriage from the fair of
Mortara, and robbed them of their
watches and about 1900 francs in
money. At Fabriano, Salvatore di
Stasio was carried off by eleven brigands
to the Massico Mountains, and was re-
leased on payment of 1900 francs ran
som. In Sicily, Baron Sgadari was
captured by brigands between Passo-
fonduto and Canarello, and the amount
of his ransom was fixed at 1000
francs in gold. That sum was paid.
In Turin, a government official of good
birth and character, being unable to
live on his pay, killed his wife, three
children, and himself. The chamber
where his victims were found dead
showed traces of the most utter penury
no sheets, towels, or linen of any
sort were to be seen, and even the wife
had but a rag to cover. her nakedness.
At Casena. one Gaetano Negroni, gas
contractor, being obliged to dismiss
some of his lamplighters, offered one
of them the less lucrative post of gate
porter. This man thought himself ag-
grieved and shot his master. At Capua
a captain Of Bersaglieri, aged IS years,
was enamored of a young lady aged 16,
and Of surprising beauty. Her parents
rejected the addresses Of the captain,
partly on account of his age,
partly because the girl had prior
attachment. The captain met
the young lady and her mother
at public promenade, and placing a
revolver at the ear of the daughter dis
charged it, breaking her skull and kill.
ing her on the spot. He wounded the
mother and then shot himself, but not
fatally. But the assassination of Cava-
here Gaspare Bolla, at Parma, has
caused intense alarm. Bolla was 81
years old, was formerly Sub-Prefect at
Sora and Alba, and was lately a Gov
eminent Commissary in Spezzia, Pla-
cenza, Bologna, and Ravenna. He
rendered signal services to justice in
these capacities, and became the OBJ
ject of vengeance on the part of those
whose malpractices he hindered. At
the time of his murder he was Council
or-Delegate of the Prefecture in Par
ma, being the chief official in that
province after the Project. Cavalier
Bolla was returning home at a little
after II o'clock on the night of the 9TH
of June. His house was in the Via
Genoresi, and he had reached the town
towards the Via Politi, when he receiv-
ed stab in his left side from an I'M
known person, who Immediately disap-
peared. Bolla crossed the street in a
frantic manner, and after staggering a
few moments, fell. Two revenue Off
GERS who were walking before him, and
two other officers who followed, soon
came to his assistance and carried him
to the nearest medical establishment.
DIR. Maschi vainly tried to stay the flow
of blood, and after twenty minutes of
agony Bolla expired. The only words
he uttered after his wound were, 81
am stillettoed. The post mortem ex-
animation proved that the knife with
which Bolla was killed was of unusual
patter and of murderous shape. Bolla
had no private foes, and was beloved
by the gentry of Parma for his amiable
and clever qualities. Political motives
are assigned for his tragical end. Five
persons were arrested on suspicion. but
it is likely that the same immunity
which the assassins of CharlesBourbon,
Duke of Parma, enjoyed, will iall to the
lot of the murderers If Bolla.
In fact, it is seldom that as
sassins in Italy are visited with
capital punishment, even if convict
ed. On the 10th of June the Court of
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brigands. One of them was accused of
five murders and two assaults, two
others of one murder and two assaults,
and the rest of assaults only. The
Judge. sentenced, In accordance with
the verdict Of the jury, two of the
brigands to death, one to forced labor
for life, another to forced labor for
twenty years, and the fifth to ten years
imprisonment. The brigands viii most
likely appeal and obtain another trial,
when their sentences will perhaps be
modified. The Deputy Kings Proctor,
Sostituto- Procurdtoire del Re, in
Bologna, Cavaliere Cavagnati, has sud
denly disappeared. He was last seen
going homewards at II o'clock at night,
in company with a legal functionary.
OdVdSSudUl uIc LOU G0ll duy Ol LIS ITltnUS
that he intended to leave Bologna. He
has been more than a week missing.
His bedchamber was in order, and he
did not sleep in it on the night of his
disappearance. He and Bolla had re-
ceived anonymous letters warning
them of peril. The secret societies
seem again at work, and men have to
fear the dagger if they offend against
the mysterious sect. On the 9th of June
about eighty persons of the Romagna
District, who were going to Bologna,
were arrested at the station of Miriam
dola Their business at Bologna was
not agreeable to the authorities. The
italian Government has no scruple in
arresting persons on suspicion and
keeping them in prison for an indefinite
time without trial. Near Bari, Michele
Cassano, a local proprietor of wealth
and distinction, was waylaid by three
brigands, who compelled him, on pain
Of FORGETTING his life, to sign bills Of ex-
change to the amount of $4,000 lire.
The hrioands hroupht with them hi11o