BLOOD MONEY.
OFFER TO ITALIANS. Rich Rewards for Murder of Mussolini. HEAVY SENTENCES PASSED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 3.30 p.m.) ROME, March 20. Sentences were passed in the trial of four men (Renato and Claudio ' Cianca, Leone Buceilioni .and a man named Capasso) for placing a bomb in a porch of St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome, with intent to assassinate the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini. Renato Cianca and Buceilioni were each sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. Claudio Cianca was given 17 years, while Capasso was found not guilty. The prosecution declared that the Italian police possessed evidence that anti-Fascist exiles in France had written to Italians offering 1,000,000 lire in prizes for the assassination of Signor Mussolini, and other prizes for the death of prominent Fascists. The court's sentences were less severe than was expected, owing to Signor Mussolini not desiring to press the case as nobody was killed by the explosion of tho bomb.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 68, 21 March 1934, Page 7
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