MURDER ATTEMPT BY PRISONERS
STUDENT WHO SHOT TOGLIATTI
(Rec. 10 a.m.) ROME, Aug. 23. Three prisoners at Noto Prison, Cicily, tried to kill Antonio Pallante, a 25-year-old Sicilian student, serving a sentence of 13 years imprisonment for the attempted‘assassination of the Italian Communist leader, Signor Palmiro Togliatti. The three men made daggers from a pair of scissors, overpowered a gaoler and took his keys. They were about to enter Pallante’s cell when his cries for help brought other gaolers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 267, 24 August 1949, Page 3
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