ITALIAN RASPUTIN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18599, 29 December 1920, Page 7

ITALIAN RASPUTIN.

MONK FASCINATES WOMEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ’ : “ The Times " Service. ROME, December 26. The extreme sentence of twenty-four years’ solitary confinement brings to a close the dramatic trial of the monk, [Brother Ciavolino, known as the Italian Rasputin. The “ Holy Devil ” case tvas stranger than fiction. By means ‘iof Mysterious fascination the monk obtained the love of dozens of society .‘women in Naples. After bringing '.'woman after woman to shame and misery he became a victim himself, falling in love with a cabaret singer. He finally murdered the Father Superior in his own converft to provide |ier with money*