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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...
...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...
Rome's Police Chief Saverio Polito re signed just before the case first broke onto the front pages. A little later, the heat of the case forced the resignation of National Police Chief Tommaso Pavone. But still there were no arrests, and even less effort in the government to get to the bottom of the affair. People began to compare the Montesi case to France's famed I'Affaire Dreyfus...
...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 of EDC and the delay in settling...
...supposed provincial capital of Spain. La Menendez, an actress, Miss Eunice Eddy '20 Garces, an actor, J. F. Lincoln '23 Don Santiago, the Governor, Walton Butterfield '20 Dona O., wife of Baldomero, Miss Katherine MacLarnie '21 Esperanza, their daughter, Miss Dorothy R. Googins '22 Don Guillermo, Bertram Little '23 Polito, in love with Esperanzo, Powell Robinson, ocC. Reguera, a man about town, F. S. Stranahan '21 Marquis of Torrelodones, from Madrid, C. S. Howard '20 Don Basilio, rector of the University, R. B. Ayer '21 Jimena, his daughter, Miss Grace Cobb '21 Belisa, his daughter, Miss Janet Evins '20 Josefina...