Word: bastia
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Fortunately for him, M. Deibler's accommodations had been reserved in advance, for there was not a room to be had in Bastia. The execution at which he was to officiate was that of the most notorious, best publicized bandit in Corsica, crazed, grey-haired Andre Spada (TIME, March...
White-bearded, excitable M. Anatole Deibler, as well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Herriot, arrived in Bastia last week on professional business. With him he had his son-in-law, Andre Perrier, and a small traveling guillotine. Since 1879 the Deibler family have been guillotineurs to the French Republic...
...little opera house of the town of Bastia, Corsica, the French Government last week put on trial for 14 separate murders the most notorious of all Corsican bandits-André Spada...