MUSSOLINI SHOT.

Shannon News, 9 April 1926, Page 4

MUSSOLINI SHOT.

Englishwoman Fires Revolver At Him. DICTATOR WOUNDED IN FACE. ROME SEETHES WITH INDIGNATION. Received this day, 10.5 a.m. -., •' ROME, April 7. v While Signer Mussolini was leaving the International Congress of Surgery a elderly woman fired a revolver almost point-blank, wounding him slightly in the nose. Mussolini was quite calm and im»me<d'iat,ely gave /directions wittli a \ view to preventing a disturbance. Mussolini, holding a handkerchief to his bleeding nose, ordered the police to protect Miss Gibson from the crowd's fury. . The woman was with difficulty rescued from the incensed crowd and taken to prison. She is an Englishwoman, Violet Albina Gibson. News of the attempt on Signor Mussolini spread rapidly throughout the city and caused profound indignation among all 'sections of the populace, especially the central districts. Feelings, ran high axul a number of young people marched to the offices of the Opposition newspaper, Mondo, where they violently protested and damaged the plant. The , authorities immediately issued strict orders to suppress excesses.

THE WOUND NOT SERIOUS. (Received This Day, 12,35 p.m.) ' ' ROME, April 7. It is officially stated that the wound perforated Mussolini's nostrils and is not serious. » ■ —■ —*■ WOMAN A PEER'S DAUGHTER. "MOODY AND DEEPLY'RELIGIOUS" SHE ATTEMPTED; SUICIDE OFTEN. (Received This Day, 1-2.35 p.m.; ROME, April 7. Miss Gibson is aged 50 and was a central figure in the Holy Year drama at Rome In February, 1925. She is a devout Catholic and attended ecclesiastical ceremonies. Later, while under the influence of a fit of religious exaltation, ' she shot herself in Hhe chest in her bedroom at a private Hotel. Her father was the first Lord Ashbourne, prominent in Irish politics. A member of the family states Miss Gibson has been residing in Rome for eighteen months and often attempted suicide. She was discharged from the hospital and put under the .care of some friends. She has no political sympathies vin any direction, but is moody aond ireligious. Her mother died a fortnight ago.