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...police took official credit for the job, but it was not they who had killed famed Bandit Giuliano. The machine-gun fire which Italy's carabinieri last July pumped into the glamorous outlaw who had terrorized and fascinated Sicily for seven years (TIME, July 17) was aimed at a man they knew to be already dead. The police shots were a blind to cover the real executioner. Last week, on trial in Viterbo for an assortment of killings and other acts of banditry, Giuliano's former lieutenant and confidant, Gaspare Pisciotta, confessed that he had killed Giuliano...
...Pisciotta had a falling out with his chief. Some of their followers were being held for trial for the murder of May Day marchers at Portella della Ginestra (TIME, May 12, 1947). Pisciotta proposed a raid to save them. "We must do something for our friends," he urged. But Giuliano was hesitant. "There is little we can do," he said. "If, we allow our organization to be destroyed, our friends will have no hope." Giuliano made a gesture. He wrote a letter to the trial judge in which he took personal blame for the murders. Pisciotta, far from satisfied, arranged...
Shortly after a Tommy gun cut down Sicilian Badman Salvatore Giuliano last fortnight (TIME, July 17), a British camera crew took off for Sicily to make a film about the bandit's bloody exploits. Producer Nelson Scott revealed that he had ordered the story written months ago, had patiently waited ever since for the real-life ending...
Scheduled for August production, the film will star Irish Actor Kieron Moore as the wily outlaw, with possibly Anna Magnani or Silvana Mangano supplying the love interest. If neither cinemactress is signed, a beauty contest will be held to find a sweetheart for Giuliano. For expert details, Producer Scott hopes to call on Colonel Ugo Luca, who baited publicity-lover Giuliano by disguising his troops as moviemen filming a bandit picture...
Died. Salvatore Giuliano, 27, famed Sicilian bandit, a Robin Hood to many a peasant and schoolboy, public enemy No. 1 to Italy's police; trapped by carabinieri gunfire; in Castelvetrano, Sicily (see FOREIGN NEWS...