SENSATIONAL CAREER OF ITALIAN RASPUTIN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2143, 28 December 1920, Page 19 (Supplement)

SENSATIONAL CAREER OF ITALIAN RASPUTIN.

MYSTERIOUS MONK RUINS DOZENS OF SOCIETY WOMEN, ("Times.'') (Ree. December 28, 9.10 a.m.) KOME, The extreme sentence of 24 years' solitary confinement has - brought to a close the dramatic trial of a monk named Brother Ciavolino, known as the Italian Rasputin and "holy devil." The case was stranger than fiction. By means of a mysterious fascination, the monk obtained the love of dozens of society women in Naples. After bringing woman after woman to shame and misery, he became- a victim himself, falling in love with a cabaret singer. He finally murdered the Father Superior in his own convent, tp provide her with money. .