ITALY: Culprit's Week

While Premier Mussolini disported himself in Tripoli, the white-haired Irishwoman who attempted to assassinate him (TIME, April 19) sat in a prison cell in Rome, closely watched by Italian nuns.

The Fascist Government thus guarded the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the Irish peer, Lord Ashbourne, because she is known to have been insane since childhood and it was feared that she might attempt suicide, as she did last year in a moment of religious excitement.

Meanwhile Miss Gibson's large deposits at an English bank in Rome were sequestered according to Italian law. Late in the week Lord Ashbourne arrived at Rome from Dublin, and retained Deputy Enrico Ferri, "the Italian Clarence Darrow," to defend his sister.