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As printed: Premier Escapes Injury; Assassin Caught by Police
ContextBenito Mussolini has governed Italy since 1922 and has survived more than one attempt on his life this year, including an Irishwoman's pistol shot that grazed his nose in Rome in April. This morning, as his automobile drove toward the Chigi palace, a bomb was thrown against it.
As printed: SPAIN WITHDRAWS FROM LEAGUE, BUT EXPRESSES AMITY
ContextSpain demanded a permanent council seat at Geneva and, failing to get one, decided at a cabinet council presided over by King Alfonso to quit the League of Nations. The formal note reached the secretary general this morning, held back, it is said, so that Germany's admission on Tuesday would not be embarrassed.
As printed: DAUGHERTY TRIAL RESUMES MONDAY
ContextHarry M. Daugherty, Harding's Attorney General until he resigned in 1924, and Thomas W. Miller, the former Alien Property Custodian, are charged with conspiring to defraud the government over the release of $7,000,000 from seized American Metals Company property. The star witness, German copper magnate Richard Merton, has been through cross-examination, and the court now stands adjourned to Monday.
As printed: Evidence of Pig Woman in Hall-Mills Case is Strengthened by Detectives
ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead under a crab apple tree near New Brunswick in September 1922; nobody was ever convicted, and New Jersey authorities reopened the case this summer. Vestryman Ralph V. Gorsline and choir singer Catherine Rastall, who for four years denied being anywhere near the place, now admit they were within 300 yards of it.
As printed: POLICE HUNT FOR OLD-TIME GANG LEADER
ContextThree gunmen took $135,000 in payroll currency from a Grand Trunk mail car on the outskirts of Chicago yesterday, the second railway robbery in Illinois within thirty-six hours. Investigators see in it the cunning of the $500,000 Dearborn station mail robbery of 1921, for which 'Big Tim' Murphy went to Leavenworth.
The Daugherty and Miller conspiracy trial stands adjourned until Monday, while the Somerville detectives keep at the Hall-Mills witnesses.