Evening star., 1924-06-19
LETTER GIVES CLUE
IN .MATTEOTTl CASE
Unknown Writer Says Socialist
Deputy Is Buried in Village
North of Rome.
FACIsT EDITOR ARRESTED
Paper Will Suspend-Entire Party
to Bring Suit.

by the Associated Press.
ROME, June 1S.-Nation- wide search
for the body of Giacomo Matteotti,
socialist deputy, alleged to have been
kidnapped and murdered by political
adversaries, today centered around
the little village of Montana, about
100 miles northwest OF Rome, as the
result of an anonymous letter pub
lished by Naples newspaper and
transmitted to the crown prosecutor
at Rome.
The letter stated that Matteottis
body was buried near Montana, three
ing to San ouirico % The rha' ietter oaa .tsaed
that the body contained fourteen
knife wounds and will be found wrap
ped in black cloth, buried five
meters deep.
Journal to Suspend.
In connection with reports OF i'm
pending sensations in the Matteotti
case the newspaper Corriere Italiano
announced that it would cease publi-
cation with today's issue. Signor
Filippelli, former editor of this news
paper. is under arrest in connection
with Deputy Matteottfs disappear
ance. The newspaper was founded
after the succession of the Fascist
to power as a Fascist organ.
The entire Unitarian Socialist party
has decided to constitute itself as
parte civile" in the Matteotti case
This means that it is entitled under
the rules of Italian Jurisprudence to
sue for damag geS in commercial cases
Such an act does not necessarily
mean that the plaintiffs have any
oh,
tary compensation, but it always has
the effect Of accentuating the gravity
OF a crime and the penalty to be in
fiicted.
Confession of ChfrxzeI.
The newspapers are stressing the
alleged confession of a man arrested
by the Milan police who said his
name is Otto Chirszel and who de-
clares that he was employed by the
follow and spy upon the Socialist
deputy. The prisoner, who declares
that he is a Russian and admits that
he betrayed both the Socialists and
Fascist. said that he had learned a
crime was being plotted against Mat
teotti and that he went to the
deputy's wife and informed her that
her husbands enemies were planning
TO steal important documents from
him.
N'tilI SLtir "HO has dtTedOy given tne
police several fictitious names, said
that, although he warned Signora
Matteotti of the danger faced by her
husband, he continued to spy upon
the Socialist deputy. He denies that
he was personally implicated in the
kidnapping. but has given the police
the names of a number of prominent
politicians, who. he says, were respon-
sible for the crime.
The Milan prisoner says that the
original intention of the plotters was
not to murder Matteotti, but to i'm
prison him in a solitary village near
Fiuggi, where they intended to keep
him during the entire parliamentary
session, thus preventing him from de-
livering speech in which he was
expected to read documents incrimi-
mating high Fascista. Chirszel car
ried in his pocket numerous letters
signed by several persons who are
already under arrest in connection
with the alleged crime.
Letters. papers and documents
seized by the police in the homes of
suspects under arrest are being sub
jected to minute examination. and IT
is expected that they will lead to
other sensational arrests and further
startling revelations