The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-06-26
OUTRAGE SHAKES
MUSSOLINI Grip
Finzi, Who Quit Post as Under
Secretary, Called lnstigator of
Plot to Kill Matteotti.
GRAFT EXPOSE THREATENED
Chambers Adjournment Hits italian
Dictator's Prestige-Several Thou
sand Fascist, March Into Rome
From Nearby Provinces.

ROME.-When Premier Mussolini
declared only the bitterest foe could
have planned SO diabolical crime
ss the murder Of the Socialist Deputy
Matteotti, he spoke truly. for the
crime has thrown a fierce light on
Fascist rank and file violence against
their opponents.
By the arrest of four Fascist.
Dumini, Viola, Mazzuaoli and Pun
alto, whom the police charge with
abducting Matteotti in broad day
have brought out, although not adj
uniting it, that high officials Of the
Fascist regime are behind the four
prisoners.
The police have not confirmed the
report that tho Deputy's mutilated
body was found on the shores of Lake
Vico, thirty miles from Rome, though
1; is known to friends of the missing
man. They. seeing the Indifference of
the police on the first day after the
kidnapping, hunted for Matteotti in
Rome and the environs and are said
to have been satisfied the body was
found.
The reason for the police delay is
purported to t. that Mussolini took
time to consider the best methods of
proceeding. It is said gigantic scan
dial is inevitable If all the facts are
bl bought out.
Rumor mentions Under Secretary
of Home Affairs Aldo Finzi, who re-
signed to defend himself against the
charges as the instigator of Matteot-
it's murder.
The Socialist was kidnapped as he
was on his was to the Chamber of
Deputies to give facts and figures
touching On Finzi's supposed gains
from the oil option the Government
recently granted Harry F. Sinclair.
Finzi also is said to have profted
largely by the recent decree legalizing
gambling.
1t is charged Finzi has been TAX
ing brides for months; the rumors to
that effect were widespread, but Mat
teotti claimed to have documents to
prove the charges true. 1t is freely
predicted that if Mussolini keeps his
promise and brings the murderers to
justice, he will also bring on the
most sensational revelations of dis
honesty ON the part of his closest
henchmen.
The murder has already shortened
the life of the Fascist Parliament's
first session Mussolini decided to
adjourn it the day after the body was
found for fear too much would be
said on the floor Nevertheless the
closing of the Chamber, for whose ex-
istence he passed special pill on
which he relied to consolidate his
position, is in itself a heavy blow to
his prestige.
During its short life it held only
thirteen sessions, but the Fascist
members were so rlotous that the
oldest members say they have seen
nothing to approach the disorder of
the present Parliament.
Not only the general public but the
best of the Fascist Party as well de-
clare that, unless Mussolini has the
courage to unfold the entire network
of violence, peculation and intrigue
of which Matteottis murder was the
climax, his domination must end soon.
But If he courageously cleans the
party of the thousands of jailbirds
who have Joined the Black Shirts
since the march on Rome which
brought The dictator into power in
1922, his followers think Fascism and
the country will rise stronger than
ever.
The murder Of Matteotti is the cul-
mination of long list of outrages.
There was the devastation of for
mer Premier Nitti's home by Fas-
cisti; the almost mortal wounding Of
Deputies Misuri and Amendola, whose
sole crime was that they refused to
become Black Shirts; the thrashing
Of village priests; burning Of Social
lists homes and workmen's clubs.