30 Years

Signer Noseda, Attorney General, summed up last week the State's case against onetime Deputy Tito Zaniboni, arrested (TIME, Nov. 16, 1925 et seq.) with a rifle in his hands which he was aiming at a balcony from which Premier Mussolini was to speak two hours later.

"We contend that the accused is guilty of homicide, attempted insurrection, and carrying a rifle," boomed the Attorney General. "The homicide must be considered as committed, because it was prevented by forces [policemen] entirely beyond the control of Zaniboni, whom you have heard confess, nay, boast [TIME, April 25] that he would have killed Premier Mussolini if not apprehended. In these circumstances, the State asks the maximum penalty for the accused and his accomplice, General Luigi Capello."

Soon Signori Zaniboni and Capello received the maximum penalty, 30 years imprisonment.