Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-23
BR|GANDAGE ON
ITALIAN ROADS
The Picturesque Bandit Chief
Now Gives Way to Regular
Uniformed Officials.
HOLD HIM UP FOR EXTRA FARE
rmprison Him for Long Hours in Dark
Tunnel and TO as They Please
Generally.

Special correspondence.
LOR ENCE, March 1S--In Italy
80 brigandage is again rampant. 1t
is not. however, the picturesque
bandit chief beloved of tnela-
drama and The sensational novelist,
who now lures the traveller to his I'm
doing by misleading directions. holds
him up in mountain passes, rifles his
luggage, robs him of his gold and jew
els, and detains him for ransom ill
dark places. Even in Italy the old or
der changeth and glyeth place 10 the
new And the new boss bandit Is SIM
ply the lta han governm ent which in
1906 took over the Italian railways
manned them with predatory hirelings
and turned them loose on the travelling
public backed by all the power OF a
state monopoly.
GROSSLY MISMAN.AGED.
The gross Encouragement Of the
railways. the thieving and pIundering
which tila officials carry on unchecked,
the inter lack Of system In the running
of trains--these things have reached
s!sh scandalpus pass that all Italy
Is protesting In parliament and tho
newspaper. Especially severe IL the
pronunciation OF Commentators Blan-
Chi minister of railways, No poiit-
clsn was ever more profuse i'm promises
of the great and beneficient things he
WAS going to- do than was Bianchi
when he took h Did of his department.
Tot only has be failed utterly to ma Ike
so"a- ne nus mao tnings worse bua
SHINE as Brilliantly as ever II his ac-
tivitles could be restricted to mere
talking Job he would be brilliant
success.
sighpr Nresgl Lombardy deputy,
iaS aenouhceo the system introduced
~" Hossrnnisns as usstruc'Ne Oh
~ SeIi aitu es'clencS IA the service,
dsu ~ lunhS lno,snauon mas been
t 1nsousAn so ci'lrax ny the recital OF
eI5,or ~ ~ "a S'e . NJ go aoSao,
hnsnarG 80 s,a,sisa .t au
IT, III ps asi,ae 9er1o, shs novel
,,a,s 80. iae W We puoltsaeu IN me-
pape e1 ai,a copiea broa deast. narratlns
nass r., thn.o a. ." i1,s ~ p''sn oaIh-
s', he 800 b.at,,,a,, ~, ic"u "a warl'
Iseatsa t1ss .rn,r w., ,soi'is a'a NspI"s,
frorn loSg cutting has caused a. host
uh,ints ''''o pi'n' "i'' eo'ii-
,rcr,,
@oHi-S of DELAY.
There are the old stories NJ coal
delayed at Genoa, while Milan md
Turin industries suffer; of the boxes
which arrive not for mothns. of the
etsslinss. the lack Of nunctnsvftv and
cLA theln--running about any Indirect
rosE possible and ARRIVING at amy
hour except the scheduled one. Bnt
there are any number OF new stories.
A prominent American resident Of
FLORENCE relates how he went with
his wife to Genoa Or arriving he
opened their tiunks to find s75
worth of possessions vanished.
He rushed TO The American consul
Iate.
in possession and 10 him the American
storned
'.Ny trunk has been robbed ne be-
gan and, Intsrspersed with denuneja.
tIons. ont came his tale of woe
the official heard hip, norite,v
Then he smiled and spread out his
my dear sir.p he said, chose poor
fellows of the railroads are paid so
poorly that they must steal q little
Tor living"
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FLED TO 'ADJUsTER-
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lie also houeJ and snread ous bix
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though every station official promised
FuKS FROM AMERICA.
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