Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-17 | Page 1 | Italy Executes Ambush Slayer

If ITALY Al Y EXECUTES AMBUSH SLAYER lAff J Antifascist Lead Leader e er Meets Meets- Death by Rifle e S quad Squad 1 I HO p LA Italy Oct 16 United Pr siVI dimi o Gortari Gorta W was I exe executed exe- exe xe- xe cute by a firing g squad lu just before dawn daw today fo for his his- part in the ambush ambush ambush am am- bush of f f a party of of voters otera on March 24 The execution took the scene of at the crime Gortan was shot in the tle back bac the back thc the death of ot a a. traitor He stood In a a. aspot spot near Poi Pola not far from the cl clump mp of or bushes from which he fired Ired on on n Italian vot voters r going to tho the polls polIs last M March He was given religious A solace Just before ho lio died His brother Vitalo the brothers Dussan Dussa and Luici and Vit- Vit torio alleged accomplices of or Gortan in hi his act of at terrorism were sentenced to servo year thirty ear prison on terms I Tho The trial of the five men alt all of or extraction stirred three European capitals The prosecution prosecution prosecution tion had asked for tor death for tor all aU five defendants The Tho special tribunal in defense of ot the state ordered here hereby hereby hereby by Premier Mussolini to try them deliberated rated one hour before decreeIng decreeing decreeing decree decree- ing that Gortan must face the firing squad and his fellow defendants ants mUl must t go to prison The trial attracted considerable attention atten loll because it occurred d In tho the peninsula wrested by Italy from Austria during tho the war The five men who although Italian citizens cit cit cit- Izeris through h circumstances were by birth and heart shot at voters who were preparing to voice their approval val or disapproval of or fascist policies One voter oter was killed and others were wounded I