PLOTTERS SUSPECTED OF MURDER

Southland Times, Issue 23407, 14 January 1938, Page 8

PLOTTERS SUSPECTED OF MURDER

CAGOULARDS AND ITALIAN ANTI-FASCISTS (Received January 13, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 13. The Minister for the Interior (M. Max Dormoy) in a further statement declares that the Surete Nationale is convinced that the Cagoulards (the Rightist conspirators) were responsible for the murder of the Roselli brothers, the anti-fascists whose bodies were found in a wood near Alencon on June 11.

M. Dormoy added that men named Piureaux, Jakubiez and Bouvier had been arrested and another, Falliol, was wanted, says the Paris correspondent of The Times.

Locuti and Vogel, the engineers from the Michelin factory, have been charged with the destruction of buildings and wilful murder.

The bullet-riddled bodies of two Italian brothers, Carlo Roselli and Sabattino Roselli, were found in a wood near Alencon on. June 11. The adjacent ground was trampled and a bloodstained dagger was lying nearby. Their car, which was bloodstained, was found on the highway nearby. The Rosellis were active anti-Fascists. Carlo was the founder of the Paris newspaper Justice et Liberte and was severely wounded while fighting for the Spanish Government. The brothers conducted an anti-fascist club in Paris which was alleged to be disseminating international propaganda.

It is believed that the Rosellis were lured to their death by political gangsters. Carlo received a mysterious letter asking for an appointment which he kept, being accompanied by his brother. Carlo Roselli’s newspaper, Justizia e Liberta, appeared on the morning of his death with a black border and a panel drawing attention to the fact that he was murdered on the 13th anniversary\of “the assassination of Matteoti by the order of Signor Mussolini.” The wife of Carlo Roselli, whom Signor Mussolini regarded as his greatest enemy because he constantly exposed II Duce’s most cherished secrets, was an Englishwoman, Miss Marion Cave, daughter of the head master of Harrow Boys’ High School. She collapsed on hearing the news of the tragedy, crying: “I knew it would happen!” The Italians imprisoned her after Carlo engineered the escape from Lipari—Signor Mussolini’s Devil’s Island—of the former socialist deputy, Signor Turati, in 1929, but the intervention of the British authorities resulted in her release. Carlo was sent to Lipari for complicity in Signor Turati's escape, but he escaped also in 1929.