Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Sicilian Brigands. [ARTICLE]

Sicilian Brigands.

The ransom originally demanded by the bold brigands who, in January, carried off Signor Parisi from the ’large town of Palermo, and from the neighborhood of his father’s house, was $120,000. They kept him blindfolded eleven days and nights in a dark hole or grotto, with an armed brigand constantly watching him; but he was well fed, and had a good cigar once a day. When they found that their demand was too great, thev compromised and released him for s2*ooo in gold and $7,200 in bank notes; but, as the numbers of the bank notes are known at every bank in Sicily, they overreached themselves in that matter.