PERJURY CHARGE

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27752, 1 September 1955, Page 13

PERJURY CHARGE

Case Of War-Time Death Reopened (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. A grand jury today indicted Aldo Icardi, a former United States Army Lieutenant, on eight counts of perjury growing out of the killing of Major William Holohan in World War 11. The indictment charged that Icardi, now a lawyer, perjured himself in testimony before an Armed Services Subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives in 1953. Icardi said at the hearing that Major Holohan was killed by an enemy band that attacked a mission that the major was leading behind enemy lines in Italy. Major Holohan was killed in 1944 while on a secret cloak and dagger mission of the United States office of strategic services. His body was not discovered until 1949, when it was found in a weighted sleeping-bag at the bottom of Lake Orta. An Italian Court ruled in 1953 that the major’s death was plotted by Icardi and Carl Lodolce, a war-time United States sergeant, but United States Courts refused, to extradite the two men. The United States Government opened a new investigation into the death on August 15, when the Justice Department put the case before a grand jury. Thirteen Italians, including three priests and the police lieutenant who recovered Major Holohan’s body, were summoned to testify. The grand jury indictment today charged that Major Holohan .died on December 6, 1944. from the effects of a poisonous substance placed in his soup and served to him by “Icardi and by Lodolce and two Italians, and from bullets by Lodolce.”