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...gold of Dongo"-the $90 million treasure that Mussolini was carrying at the time of his capture and killing by partisans in April 1945 (TIME, June 24). Last week, with about 30 more witnesses to be heard from, one of the seven blue-ribbon jurors. 62-year-old Silvio Aldrighetti, a rich Padua ironmonger who of late weeks had been ailing, walked into the study of his elegant country home and shot himself through the right temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Accursed Gold | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...accursed gold of Dongo has claimed another victim," mourned Presiding Judge Agostino Zen. a longtime friend of Aldrighetti. "I must declare a mistrial." It would be months before all the witnesses could be reassembled and new jurors sworn in to go at it all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Accursed Gold | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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