Word: filippelli
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...arrested five alleged assassins, headed by Amerigo Dumini, a boastful, U.S.-born gangster and Fascist. He forced other suspects into hiding. Among them: Filippelli, editor of Rome's only Fascist newspaper, Cornere Italiano...
...somehow the world never forgot the crime. From time to time Matteotti's ghost, started up to haunt Mussolini. From time to time people involved in the murder talked. But they never really told anything. Nevertheless there was a perennial rumor that the Corriere Italiano's editor Filippelli (who has since dropped out of sight) had written a full confession. Only one photostated copy of the confession existed...
...Rome last week able New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews somehow procured (he would not say where) and published Filippelli's 20-year-old photostat. The confession had been paraphrased in part in George Seldes' Sawdust Caesar. Matthews reported the full text...
...Ghost Talks. Filippelli confessed...
Something in a Newspaper. "Dumini entered my office with something rolled up in a newspaper [believed to have been Matteotti's bloody clothing] and asked me to find him a place where he could keep the automobile during the night." Filippelli became suspicious. It dawned on him that Gangster Dumini had used his car to commit a political murder. Filippelli was shocked and panicky. He did not yet know who the victim...