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...traps set for him, killed one of the men who tried to seize him and was freed despite pressure from the Fascists. When he was wounded while in the hands of the police, the demonstrations of his supporters almost caused a rebellion in Sardinia. Deported to the island of Lipari in 1927, he escaped two years later...
Died. Vittorio Domizio Torrigiani, 70, onetime Grand Master of Italian Freemasonry; of a lingering illness; in Tuscany, Italy. When Premier Mussolini abolished Freemasonry in 1925, Torrigiani was convicted of political interference, sentenced in 1927 to five years' imprisonment on the Lipari Islands. Though he was regarded as Mussolini's greatest enemy, II Duce permitted his return two years later, partly because of Torrigiani's infirmities...
Stopped speculation for the decline on Italian exchanges by a decree empowering the Ministry of Finance to seize profiteering bear traders, send them either to jail or to hard labor on Lipari Island...
Before three days were out Prisoner Gualino was arraigned before the Fascist Commission of the Province of Turin, sentenced to five years on the penal Island of Lipari "for having wrought serious and repeated damage to national economy...