Arizona republican., 1900-10-17
A BUSY BRIGAND. THIS.
An Ideal RObber of Romance Who Is
 Murdering Right and Left.

MuluerlnS RlSnt ana Let.
 London-All Italy is in a state of eX citement over the exploits of the brig and Mussolino. whose murder record Is rapidly nearing champion figures some time ago he was convicted of the murder of an inoffensive peasant and was sentenced to twenty-five years inn prlsonment. He recently escaped and took to the open country as brigand with the avoWed object of taking ven geance upon everybody connected with the trial.
 An enterprising reporter, taking his life in his hands, obtained an interview with the blood stained ruffian. Musso- limo put on highly virtuous frills with the newspaper man. He said:
 'I harm nobody who has not injured me. l am no vulgar malefactor, but. take my word, l will kin every one of the scoundrels who denounced me to the law and gave evidence against me: the members of the jury rwho dared to find me guilty of common crime and the judges who had the audacity to send me to prison. all shall know what it means to be the enemy of Mussolino. I protect them"
 Such wholesale threats would be gro- tesque in any other country, but Mus sOlino is a man of his word. Murder has followed murder with incredible rapidity, and, after all, the fiend runs no particular risk, as there is no capi- tai punishment in Italy, and if cap tured he will be no worse off than if he had merely hidden after escaping. He has already killed every man who gave evidence against him, and has mur- dered seven of the jury, while two oth- CTS are awaiting their doom in d state of abject terror, although protected by the police night and day. The remain ing three died natural deaths, or as some say, unnatural deaths from fright.
 Apart from his legitimate quarry, so to speak, Mussolino has incidentally killed two carbineers. The last crime was committed on Tuesday when he emptied the six chambers of his revolv- CT into Judge 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 desperado is absolutely terrOrizing the entire province. His courage and indomitable nerve are superb. He does not confine his murderous work to the country or to the night time. Several times he has entered towns and will lages in broad daylight, killed his vic tim and disappeared-this despite the fact that a price of 10000 lires or about $2,O0O, is upon his head and that the entire provincial force of gendarma as and militia were hunting him.
 Mussolino is about 2S years old and of fine physique like the robbers of TO- nance He is kind to the poor and has a pretty way with women, who are be- lieved to act as willing intelligence of ficers.
 The great trial at Palermo, conse- quent upon the latest effort to eXtir pate brigandage in Sicily, was conclud ed this week. I lasted three months and was full of exciting dramatic in cidents, but the Italians have not talk en nearly as much interest in it as in Mussolino's murderous exploits. The Palermo prisoners numbered PAS. They were accused of all possible crimes from murder to house breaking. The sentences passed aggregated the stu pendOus total of sixteen centuries. than which there is surely nothing more re- markable outside of comic opera.
 As soon as the president of the tri- bunal had finished reading the judg- ment the prisoners howled in chorus i and made desperate efforts to break through the iron bars behind which they were caged. The guard of eighty gendarmes leveled their rifles at the | condemned men while the president | shouted: If at my third word order is | not restored I 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 a | gesture from the bench the gendarmes | lowered their rifles. So ended a strange i trial. There is a strong suspicion that | quite half the prisoners were victims of i agents of the prOvocateurs.-New York | Sun.