FIRST OFFENDER
VATICAN CITY TRIAL.
ALMiSBOX ROBBED
(Received 12.30 p.m.)
VATICAN CITY, January 29,
Giuseppe Paollis, who was caught extracting coins from an almsbqx at St. Peter’s with a piece of whale--bone smeared with birdlime, was the first offender to be tried in the Vatican Court. He obviously enjoyed the sensation until" a sentence of three' months' imprisonment caused his smiles to fade. - -
A Courthouse has not yet been erected and the trial was' heid 'ftr a small room in the Papal gendarmerie A crucifix surmounting the Pope’s portrait was hung behind the president’s chair. (The president, judges .and counsel were arrayed in rich black velvet togas, lined with crimson, while the prisoner, a small thin man, was escorted by two magnificent gendarmes.
The judges did not heed the defending counsel’s piloa that the Italian Jaw, which prescribed three months’ imprisonment’ for the offence, should he mitigated through canonical mercy. The Court ordered the whalebone to be confiscated.
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Northern Advocate, 1 February 1930, Page 9
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