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...Piero Piccioni, the son of Premier Mario Scelba's ex-Foreign Minister, was locked up in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail on charges of manslaughter. Ugo Montagna, the rich and influential bogus marquis, was clapped into a nearby cell. Rome's ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito was also arrested but allowed to stay at home, pending trial, because...
Corroding Confidence. For the first time, something that bore an official imprint was substituted for the deluge of black headlines and wild rumors that had sprung up because of the 18-month-old death of Wilma Montesi, the obscure daughter of a Roman carpenter. The charge laid against Piccioni was that, believing Wilma Montesi dead (presumably as a result of a drug orgy), he had left her body on a beach 13 miles outside Rome. There she had drowned in the tide. Montagna, a man of large but questioned means, and Polito were charged with aiding and abetting the manslaughter...
...produced a great psychological break for the Scelba regime. Persons of wealth and high position just are not touched in Italy by the law-or so many Italians had come to believe. But this time, neither the wealth of Ugo Montagna nor the high connections of Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni had prevented indictment and arrest...
...pages of evidence to the government prosecutor. Nothing happened. After three days' waiting, Magistrate Sepe took an unusual step to prod higher authorities to action: he pointed his finger at four prominent figures by the simple expedient of canceling their passports. The four: Pianist Piero Piccioni, Ugo Montagna, ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito and, to the surprise of almost everyone, Prince Maurice of Hesse, 28-year-old grandson of Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel. The magistrate's action came at an awkward time, with the Scelba government already off balance by the French defeat...
Submerged in Mud. At this point, Scelba finally accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Piccioni. "I feel that my place must be beside my son," he said. As new Foreign Minister, Scelba upgraded his Education Minister, Gaetano Martino. No longer did it seem possible to stifle the Montesi case with a conspiracy of silence...