The Osceola times., 1880-06-26
MURDER BY sICILIAN BRIGAND.s
The Whole Basd Arrested and Three OF
Them sentsn.ea 70 Bsass.


Them Sentenced 10 Death.
A correspondent OF the London Nets
vfites from Italy as follows: "Who that
has ridden along that loveliest Of roads,
the read which runs coastNise from Pal
erme to Messirs, can have forgotten
Cefalu, the bold, SQUARE headland, with
its ruined castle on the top. the town
upon the narrow strip of shore below,
tho ivied. slopes, the long descent be-
tween villas nesting in groves Of palm
and olive, the grand Cathedral of old
King Roger, the boundless outlook over
the bright blue seas? Hitherward on
the evening of an October day was driv-
ing home, in company with his farm
bailiif, uinsePpe Cstaliano, OF Cefalu, a
gentleman farmer, rs we should say in
England, Joint owner with his two BROTH
srs of q snug country estate hard by,
when suddenly, at a dip in the r.ad
called Citinciune, whore small thicket
slopes down TO the sea, five men, masked
and armed, sprang out from the under
wood with shouts Of 'Faccia a terra
faces 10 the ground). The terrified
three lost no time in obeying Coach
man and farm ba.iif were at once seized,
bound and safely deposited in the bot,
tun, Of the ravinc. Their unlucky mas
teg WAS dragged down to the beach,
placed in boat belonging to one Of the
band, and the next evening landed near
Palermo, hurried up the steep sides of
Monte Pellegrino, and finally hidden,
with three men to guard him, in q nar1
row cave all oveigrown with brushwood
and wild fig trees and somewhat inap1
pfopriately named the Cavern of Peusa
bene (of good thoughts. Meanwhile, al
pefsliu, whittier Cataialmo's servants
had by this time contiived to make theft
way, the riscakO, as these affairs ard
called in Sicily, had caused equal confu
sion and dismsy. The captors and thei
destination were alike unknown. Only
from time to time came letters to ths
brothers, bearing the Partinico or Gin
genu postmarks, and piteuusly implofI
Ing them to sSnd the necsssafy fansbn.
money. One letter even spoke of 200,l
900 lire, q sum that the entire estate
would scarcely realize. Eight thousand
Eve hundred lire we're actually sent, tha
bearer, as directed, having a red patel.
upon his hand, and handing over thS
money without speaking TO a mounted
and asked light for his cisar' The cari
binsers left I'D stone untufned, and bel
Tore long suspicion fell upon two meIf
Giuseppe Venturelli, of Lascari, anh
PAsquAle Sanhippo, vaguely denominatel
~ 'possidente.' Imprisonment anh
| cross-eXaminations were Intellectual. but
Italian police are not easily beateil
With . decision worthy of the CRED
Lord Olive, though, like the act which
saved British India; not cf kind to hnI
favor In our courts, the bafi!ed brigadiei
made 70 the nearest telegraph office ans
had . form filed up at once: Pay 1900.
lire and set at liberty the man who givei
you the information necessary to seclIri
the release OF Signor Cataliamo,' signeS
with the Projects name. and returned
without wasting q r,oinsntj t. The prlsot
san1ippo read and fell into the snarl,
Catslfamo, ne now confessed, was to u
found in . cavern known rs the Croft,
del Pensabenc. That night the carb.
neers surrounded the spot. The birds
however, had already flown. Only tn,
ground showed marks bf having beeI
disturbed, and there were traces al
around q blood. A few seconds spsd
work brought TO light hesdless body
easily identified by certain marks a
that of tho unfortunate farmer, and
day or two afterward, near the entrance
the head itself was also discovered
hsek.h o.f-so medical evidence pre-
nouncej-by some iude cutting instru
ment while the victim was still alive
The barber now told all he knew, an
justice made a mighty haul, arrestin
the entire band of twenty, all bit two
who are still u t,tdnh somewhere in tn
hills. Last week the whole eighteen
possidenii. small dealers, hoat'nen etc
by trade-stcdd slide by side in the Pa
sfmo dock, the barber again, TO the il
tense fury Of his accomplices, CYNICAL
supplying any deficiencies in the ev
dsnce. The customary fiaccid Italia
sympathy for the potT,H who hav
killed man was wholly absent In th
present case, and, In spite OF all th
efforts of their advocates, the sentenc
which condehned three TO death, ten t
hdpdter forces for Twenty Years, five I
lrGsa.r free, tor fifteen years, and tw,
the least guilty, to three years of 'secll
nnn WIS as heartily apnlauded by nh