May 05, 1953 - Thirty-one Sicilian bandits sentenced Giuliano gang's six hundred years.: After a...

May 05, 1953 - Thirty-one Sicilian bandits sentenced Giuliano gang's six hundred years.: After a trial lasting nearly four months, the Central Court of Palermo, Sicily, recently delivered its verdict, which took eight days to reach in the case of 45 men accused of serious crimes while members of the gang of Salvatore Giuliano, the bandit who, after terrorizing Sicily for six years, was shot dead by the police in 1950. Thirty-one of the accused bandits were found guilty of complicity in 11 murders, 15 attempted murders, 14 kidnapping and a number of other serious crimes. They received sentences of imprisonment two of them penal servitude for life - which totalled 600 years. The other 14 were ac ~ uitted, though nine of them still have to serve long sentences for previous crimes. Some of the guilty are still in hiding and were sentenced in their absence. Photo shows the sister of Ferrugia Onofrio who was sentenced to 16 years - leaves the court after hearing the verdict.