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ROME SENSATION. CULPRITS SENTENCED. THIRTY YEARS FOR TWO. (Received 1.30 p.m.) ROME, March 20. Sentences were passed in the trial of four men —Renato and Claudio Cianca, Leone Bueciloini and a man named Capasso—for placing a bomb in a porch of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, with intent to assassinate the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini. Renato Cianca. and Bueciloini were '.each sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment. Claudio Cianca was given 17 years, while Capasso was found not The prosecution declared that the Italian police possessed evidence that .anti-Fascist exiles in France had written to Italians offering 1,000,000 lire in prizes for the assassination of Signor Mussolini and other prizes for the death of prominent. Fascists. The Court’s sentences wore less severe than was expected, owing to Signor Mussolini not desiring to press the case, as nobody was killed by the of the bomb.
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Northern Advocate, 22 March 1934, Page 5
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