MUSSOLINI'S BODY FOUND IN CUPBOARD
Received Tuesday, 7 p.m. POAIE, August 13. Mussolini 's body, in two rubbonsed sacks, was found in a cuplioard in ihe ground lloor cidl in a nionastery, ac cording to a Alilan police statement. Tlie liody was kept liiddeu in ISt. Angedo Alonasterv until the morning oi August 11. when the same persons wlm took it Ihere nioyed . it to Pavia • Monkstei«y. The discovery of the botlv followed a statement to the police by * Father Alberto, Franciscan friar, tliat he had been released from a pledge of confessional secrecv, permitting him to reveal the whereabouts. The police statement added tliat t^o nionks had been takou into custody m addition to the other men previouslv lield. Reuter's corfespondent says news paper corresjiondents were allowed to view the body which is now at Alilan police headquarters awaiting a reburial decision. Inside oue of the sacks containing Alussolini 's body was written a statement giving the dates of the bod.v's successive journeys and also indicating the identity of the neo-Fascist gang which renioved it.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1946, Page 5
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