The Prescott daily news., 1908-10-05
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 Pietro Carricci was a famous bandit. Pietros success lay in strategy rather than fighting He would get up in genious devices to induce people to walk right into a trap and then hold them for ransom. The country round about his lair suffered from many of his tricks, but the bandit never used the same ruse twice, so that each new one worked as well as the preceding.
 Young Luigi, oldest son and heir of Count Bartinelli, was known to be suitor for the hand of Beatricia Car rono, whose father had other plans for her. One day Luigi while walking on a road near his fathers villa was ac- costed by man, who asked him if he were not Luigi Bartinelli, and when he said yes the man told him that a man q short distance up the road was looking for him with letter from a lady, marked "Immediate." Luigi, be- lieving the note to be from Beatricia,
  took a man whom he supposed to be the messenger, but was directed to go farther. In this way the young man was passed from one person to an other till he came to a lonely place. where he found one who admitted he was the messenger. He said mock ingly that the letter was from Senorita Carrono, who instructed him to pay to Carricci. the bandit, $4O,OOO for ran- som. Luigi was taken to the robbers lair, whence he dispatched letter to his father stating the case. It was i'm possible for tie count to raise so much money immediately. and the case dragged.
 One evening Maria Bassanio, daugh- ter of farmer dwelling near Count Bartinelli's estate. was left alone by her father, who did not expect to be at home till midnight. During the evening, hearing knock at the door, she opened it, to find a stranger carry ing on his back a heavy sack, under which he staggered and seemed very weary. He begged a lodging for the night, but the girl refused. Then he begged permission to leave his sack till morning, to which she consented. Depositing it on the floor beside the fireplace, he departed.
 Maria sat down beside a table and began doing some needlework. She looked at the sack, wondering what it contained. While she was looking at it she fanced that not far from its center there seemed to be a very slight rising and falling motion. Her heart stood still. The motion was doubtless produced by some one breathing
 Maria's first motion was quick ways kept a gun. Glancing again at the sack, she saw something glisten in the lamplight. It was the point of knife protruding through the sack. In another moment the blade began to move, making a slit in the sack.
 With one bound Maria reached the gun on the wall, took it from its sup ports, cooked it and fired at random at the sack. There was a spasmodc mo- tion; then all was still again. In an- other moment something red stained the sack and trickled through it on to the floor. It was blood.
 Terror stricken, Maria rushed to the door and out to the road, down which she fled as if on the wind. She had not gone far before she ran right into the arms of man. So frightened was she that she did not know him till he eagerly begged her to tell him what had happened. Then, recognizing her father, she lost consciousness
 But not for long. Reviving, she gave Der experience. Bassanio, thinking 1t best to secure assistance, gathered a number of men who lived along the road, and, all we'll armed, the party went to the house. Opening the sack, they found the dead body of man with charge of shot in the breast. One of the men present pronounced him to be Pietro Carricci.
 From the bandits neck hung a silver whistle. This indicated that his as- sistants were at hand. Putting out all lights, the company kept quiet for time. Then Bassanio went out in front of the house, and shrill, sharp whis-
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