Mussolini's Missing Wealth

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1949, Page 5

Mussolini's Missing Wealth

' \ Received Thursday, 4. ROME, June la^ -y. Twenty-nine ltalians — inosr^y f ormer partisans — will shortly^ • stand trial in Milan chargedX with complicity in the disappearance of the fabulous gold and jewel treasure of Mussolini. ' The hunt for the missing treasure by several Italian Government depqrtments since Mussolini's death, had all the essentials of a Hollywood mystery— gold and jewels, murders, secret documents and. dossiers . on prominent citizeris. ; When Mussolini was captiirL ed he was believed to. have hacj with him a notebook with gold covers embossed with a swastika and Fascist emblem; .'in ; diamonds (a present ffom.IHit-.:^ ler), a gold hunting horn. stiid-i ded with rubies (a present fTphi : a former Hungari'an Regenf) Admiral Horthy ) , i^ie . golden' . crown of the King of Abyssinia.; richly encrusted with '^ewels,.;, seventy pounds weiglit of gold and a sum of money est.imated' at 100,000,000 lire. It was said ) that the gold and eash were used by the partisans to paytheir men in the closiug stages of the -war. rest 'of the treasure Left Dongo for' Milan '' with an escort of about twelye . partisans. It ne'ver reached its destination. - . At least five ^people closely associated with the investiga- ~ tions coneerning 'ihe mtssing, docujnents which Mitesoliiii was believed. to be carrying,. have been miirdered. ^