MURDERS IN ITALY.
MYSTERY OLEABED TO. (By Cable Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received August 27th, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, August 25. The deathbed confession of a cinema actor named Cavallaro has cleared up the mystery surrounding the murder of an old merchant in Turin and u.aS of an elderly Tvoman two months later. With a fellowactor named Pietro, both Sicilians, he had been engaged, in the production of films. Losing their positions and being penniless, they decided to give a realistic turn to the scenes in which they had acted and therefore murdered and robbed their victims of three hundred thousand lire. Cavailaro admitted that but for his illness he would have killed others. Pietro, when arrested, reproached his betrayer, who suddenly collapeed and died.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17544, 28 August 1922, Page 7
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