Alleged Theft Of £4O0 # 000 At Vatican
ROME, Fri. (1.15 p.m.)—The chief of Rome’s mobile police announced that Edoardo Prettner Cippico, a former Vatican priest, will go into Rome Gaol tomorrow to await trial on charges of robbery, forgery, misappropriation of funds and traffic in foreign currency. The Associated Press correspondent says the police chief estimated that Cippico’s gains, made mostly while he was keeper of ihe Vatican’s Secretariat of State Archives, totalled about £400,000.
The police also announced the arrest of Ida Gengemi, wife of a former general of Fascist militia, in whose home' Cippico hid. The police also implicated six others in Cippico's dealings.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 7
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