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...cage sat the Rev. Vincenzo Baiamonte. Archpriest of Burgio, and several former Mayors of local towns. Indeed last week's batch of alleged desperadoes were as different as possible from the 153 dirty, sullen men and savage, leering hags who sat in similar cages during the first mass Mafiosi trial at Termini Imerese (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week the well and in many cases elegantly dressed prisoners listened with composure while the Crown charged them with 43 murders, 26 attempted assassinations, blackmailings & robberies innumerable and, collectively, with "banding and conspiring together for criminal purposes...
Died. Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, 64, secretary of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, Prefect of the Congregation of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, famed (1903-14) as Papal Secretary of State; of heart failure after an appendectomy; in Rome. His death leaves 28 Italian, 29 non-Italian Cardinals. He was born in London where his father (later to be Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See) was attached to the Spanish Legation. On his Protestant mother's side he was of English descent, but, true son of his father...
...bearded Archpriest whose rich vestments recalled the pomp of Holy Russia stood, last week, with streaming eyes beside the deathbed of Peter Nicholaie-vich, Baron Wrangel. The place was merely a retired suburban villa, near Brussels, Belgium; but, as Death came to the lanky care-worn Baron, men recalled how recently and with what high courage he and his Cossack army all but succeeded in overthrowing the Soviet regime...
...when Baron Wrangel found himself failing in health, he offered the allegiance of his "White Knights" unreservedly to the Grand Duke Nicholai and himself retired to live quietly in Brussels. There he has been attended by only a few faithful followers, among them the Russian Archpriest who, last week, administered to him last rites...
...Goddess. A Shinto archpriest, bearded and stately, heralded the Tenno's death to his ancestors at Tokyo. Locked within the Imperial Shrine, the archpriest communed with the 122 dead Emperors. When he emerged his face was ashen but beatified. Thousands who had gathered to pray believed that the archpriest might even have talked with the Sun Goddess from whom the Emperors are traditionally descended...