The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-15
A BUSY RRlGAND, THIS.
(New York SUM-

| CNew York Sum-
| London--An Italy is in a state of ex-
cftement over the exploits of the brigand
Mussolino, whose murder record is rap
| idly nearing champion figures. Some
| time ago he was convicted of the muir
! der of an inOffenSiVe peasant and was
| sentenced to twenty-five years imprison-
ment- He recently escaped and took to
/ the open country as a brigand with the
| avowed object of taking vengeance upon
| everybody connected with the trial.
An enterprising reporter, taking his life
IN MS hands, obtained an interview with
| the bloOd-stained ruffian. MusSolino put
| on highly VirtuouS frillS with the news
| paper man. He said:
L harm nobody who has not injured
me. am no vulgar malefactOr, but, take
my word, L will kill every one of the
scoundrels who denounced me TO the law
Ders OF the jury who dared to find me
guilty of common crime and the judges
VINO had the audacity to send me 70
pr1son-all shall know what il means to
be the enemy of MuSSOlino. But all other
people need not fear. L protect them
Such wholesale threats would be gro
teSque in any other country but MuSso-
limo is q man of his word Murder has
followed murder with incredible rapidity,
lar risk, as there is no capital punish
ment in Italy, and if captured he will be
den after escaping. He has already
killed every man who gave evidence
against him, and has murdered seven of
the jury, while two others are awaiting
their doom in a state of AFFECT terror, al
though protected by the police night and
day. The remaining three died natural
deaths, or, as some say, unnatural deaths
Apart from his legitimate quarry, so to
speak, MussOlino has incidentally killed
two carbineerS. The last crime was COM
mitted on Tuesday, when he emptied the
Zizilli, a member of the court which
sentenced him. The judge. is dead, OF
course, and his sons and brothers are now
joining in the chase of the. murderer
All these crimes have been committed
in the province of Reggie Calabria- The
desperate is absolutely terrorizing the
mitable nerve are superb. He does not
cOnfine his murderouS work TO the coun-
try or to the night time. Several times
he has entered towns and villages in
broad daylight, killed his victim and dis
price of 10000 Tires, or about $1,000, is
upon his head, and that the entire pro-
Yincial force of gendarmes and militia
Mussolino IS about 2S years old and of
fine physique, like the robbers of ro-
nance He is kind to the poor and has
a pretty way with women, who are be
lieved to act as willing intelligence Of
The great trial at Palermo, consequent
upon the latest effort to extirpate bril-
gandage in Sicily, was concluded this
-
full of exciting dramatic incidents, but
the Italians have not taken nearly as
much interest in it as in Mussolino's
murderouS exploits The Palermo pr1S-
oners numbered 24S They We're accused
of all possible crimes. from murder to
housebreaking The sentences passed ag-
gregated the stupendous total of sixteen
centuries, than which there is surely
nothing more remarkable outside of comic
opera.
As soon as the president of the tri-
bunal had finished reading the judgment
the prisoners hOwled in chorus and made
desperate efforts to break through the
iron bars behind which they were Gagged
The guard of eighty gendarmeS leVeled
their rifles at the condemned men while
the pesident shouted: 'If at my third
word order is not restored 1 will order
the gendarmes to fire. Now, then, one,
two
Before the judge could say three all
the prisoners threw themselves on their
knees and begged for mercy, and at
gesture from the bench the gendarmes
lowered their rifles. So ended a strange
trial There is a strong suspicion that
quite half the prisoners were victims of
AGENTS of the provocateurs.