Death Leap in Church
4+ LONDON, August 29. The Yatican City correspondent says a fashionably dressed young man hurtled to death from the high inner dome of St. Peter's Basilica today. The body landed near the gold encrusted high altar before praying pilgrims and liorror stricken tourists. . The massivp doors of St. Peter's were quicklv sliut and the Basilica deelared cTosed for re-consecration in keeping wit1- fhe custom involving dosecration ' of holv places. An Ttalian lawver committeed suicide in a .leap from the same high walkway ^ around tlie inner dome last November,
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1949, Page 5
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92Death Leap in Church Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1949, Page 5
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