BOMB EXPLOSION.
VATICAN MURDER PLOT. ROME, Dec. 1. Another celebrated trial will shortly begin, when alleged murder plots, of which the intended victims were Signor Mussolini, His Holiness the Pope, and the’ King of Italy, will be investigated. The three accused are Aldo and Renato Cianca, and Leonardo Bucciglioni, who were arrested following the explosion at the Vatican last June. The police have discovered that it was intended to asphyxiate the Pope and the entire retinue of cardinals during the beatification ceremony in the presence of 50,000 pilgrims, but the bomb proved relatively innocuous. The accused after the explosion allegedly fled to Paris.
The explosion of a packet surreptitiously placed in the porch of St. Peter’s in Juno last injured four persons, but caused no structural damage. The explosion made the third attempt to wreck St. Peter’s, in two years. Happily, it only slightly injured the fabric, but two minutes before the explosion a thousand pilgrims filled the gateway where the bomb was placed. Thousands inside the church were panicstricken and stampeded for the exits. The bomb was worked by clockwork.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 2 December 1933, Page 7
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