SENSATIONAL CAREER OF ITALIAN RASPUTIN.
MYSTERIOUS MONK RUINS DOZENS OF SOCIETY WOMEN. -■- ' . ' ■ * ("Times.") (Rec. December~2B, 9.1T) a.m.) ROME, December 26. 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, to provide her with money.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2143, 28 December 1920, Page 7
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