Word: comincio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claimed from New York by Italy's King represented the savings of one Antonio Comincio, who sailed from Italy 42 years ago. In Manhattan he earned his bread with pick & shovel, lived as an Americano, though legally a subject of the Italian crown. In 1925 Laborer Comincio died, leaving no will, no heir, and $900 in the bank which duly escheated to New York State...
...Minister Benito Mussolini ferreted out the incident. Remembering the "consular agreement" which provides that Italy may settle the estate of any Italian citizen who dies while living temporarily in the U. S. and vice versa, Signor Mussolini instructed Consul Emanuele Grazzi at New York to file claim for the Comincio savings...
Judge Foley pondered all this in his office at Manhattan's Hall of Records. Finally he decided that: 1) Antonio Comincio had signified his desire to set up his domicile in the U. S.; 2) that domicile, not nationality, decides the succession of personal property...
...Italian Laborer Antonio Comincio died in New York City. During 42 years in the U. S. he had saved up $900 but had not become a U. S. citizen. He left no heirs, no will. Under U. S. law, e tates of all persons dying under such conditions become the property of the State in which they...
Last week, Italy's Fascist Government, through counsel for Magno Santovincenzo, Acting Italian Consul in New York City, entered a claim in surrogate's court for the Comincio savings. Their reason: under Italian law. all estates of Italian citizens who die intestate without heirs, no matter where they had lived, revert to Italy's King upon their death...