THIEF AT VATICAN
STOLE FROM ALMS BOX. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this dav at 1-30 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. A message from the V atican city states Guiseppe Paolis who was caught extracting coins from the alms box at St. Peters with a piece of whale-bone smeared with bird lime, is the first bffendpr to be tried by the V atican Court. | He obviously enjoyed the sensation until a sentence of three months imprisonment caused bis smiles to fade The court house has not yet been erected and the court was held in a small room in the Papal gendarmerie barracks A crucifix surmounted by the Pope’s portrait hung behind the president’s chair. Presidents judges and counsel were arrayed in rich black velvet togas lined with crimson. The prisoner, a small thin man was escorted by two magnificent gendarmes. The judges did not heed defending counsel’s plea that tlie Italian law which prescribed three months imprisonment for the offence should be mitigated by canonical mercy. Tlie court ordered that the whalebone be confisated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1930, Page 5
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