ATTEMPT TO MURDER MUSSOLINI
: ♦ 'THREE MEN SENTENCED TC ! IMPRISONMENT I j ROME, March 20. Renata Cianca and Leone Buccilioni were sentenced to 30 years - imprisonment, and Claudio Cianca. - son of Renata. to 17 years' ims prisonment. Pasqualc Capasso wa; ! found not guilty, l | The prosecution declared the r i Italian police possessed evidence i ! that anti-Fascist exiles in France ) j had written to Italians, ottering a ' million lire in prizes lor the assassination ot Signor Mussolini and other prizes for the death oi prominent Fascists. | The sentences are less severe than I was expected owing tu Signor Mus- | soiini's unwillingness to press the j case, as nobody was killed, j [The accused were charged with i committing the bemb outrage at St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome, when four were injured and one person permanently crippled. They were also alleged to have attempted to assassinate Signor Mussolini by a poison gas bomb which they were making when arrested.]
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 9
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