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Show Famous Brigand Dead. Coralcans nro mourning tho death of tho brlGnnd chief Hellacoscla, of whom thoy nro almost as proud a9 of Napoleon. ' Hl3 real namo was An- Itonla Ponelll. In consequence of a vondctta ho and IiIe brother Jacob wero compelled U torn, safety In the mountains. For 4S jear3 they terrorized terror-ized tho country, going from provlnco to . province, and all efforts of tho government to capturo them wero unavailing. un-availing. In IS!)2, aged and broken down, Ucllacoscla voluntarily delivered deliv-ered himself into the hands of Justice Jus-tice So great was tho national admiration ad-miration of his bold exploits that tho courts at Ajacclo acquitted him, but tlio pollen expelled hlra, and he sought n homo In Marseilles. Ho could not enduro his cxllo more than a fow months and secretly returned to end his days In tho wllds-of Corsica. |