AN ITALIAN RASPUTIN
... -— —* MYSTERIOUSLY FASCINATING MONK END OF A DRAMATIC TRIAL 'By T«l«ri»s_-Pr«ii Ataoolatlon-Oovyricfci Rome, December 26. The extreme sentence of twenty-four years in solitary confinement brings to a close the 1 dramatic trial of the monk, Brother Ciavolino, known as "the Italian Rasputin" and "the Holy Devil." The case is stranger than fiction. By means of a mysterious fascination, the monk obtained the lovo of dozens of society women- in Naples. , After bringing woman after woman to' shame and misery, he became a victim himself, by falling in lovo with a cabaret singer. Finally he murdered the Father Superior of his own convent to provide her with/ money.— "The Times." '. f
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 80, 29 December 1920, Page 5
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112AN ITALIAN RASPUTIN Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 80, 29 December 1920, Page 5
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