Show vi A LONG TERM PRISONER albera tl bera an italian brigand alfr a confinement of sixty years the other day after sixty years of ech was passed in eclie hospital the italian brigand chie cocchia Toc chia was liberated and passed through naples to rc me where it is probable as he has no living relative that he will be placed in some asylum for he cufferi suf feri from asthma and a disease of the leg i this old brigand chief says the philadelphia telegraph was born eighty three years ago near viterbo where at fourteen years of age he killed the and his brother aa priest because he daxl heard they wanted to have him arrested after the murder he fled and joined a band of brigande brigands bri gands leading the life of a highwayman and housebreaker for some years during which he asserts more a million francs passed through bis hands when be was at school previously at montefiascone Monte fiascone he had been the companion of pope leo and being a good arithmetician was at that early age made to teach his fellow scholars when he became a brigand he like a superior officer and quietly frequent the towns of piedmont ans cany etc of the neapolitan provinces only the abruzzi were favored by his visits it was a sweetheart of his who finally enabled the gendarmes gen darmes to arrest him without shedding blood ake price that biad been set on his head was thirty five thousand francs which the gendarmes gen darmes gained he was taken together with five companions pan ions who were all be headed but cocchia was saved by prince orsini president of the senate because when the prince had one evening been stopped and robbed by the band cocchia hadet him free and restored all that had been taken cocchia was however condemned to prison for life but he did not oease to commit crimes in 1841 deiny v with the reproaches of the chaplain because he refused to kneel and kiss the crucifix cocchia killed the by a stratagem july be had been irritated by a dentist tailing to extract a torturing tooth and had treacherously sharpened a large nail and killed the dentist with two stabs in 1858 having made a complicated calculation of all tb expense of the crimean war within ten days prison companions had not been able to manage it in a month he gained a prize of fifty from the commanding colonel twice he tried to commit suicide once at pesaro where he swallowed a blister that had been put on a companions arm but he said without result as it was as if he had merely eaten a pastry the second time he had cut a vein in his arm but this too failed |