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Show Mussolini Was Hit-Run Driver, j Says Letter To Italian Paper carried it to Gosseto. The child died the following day, but of the two men there is nothing- more known about them. . "It is rumored that they were spirited away. I pray you not to, tell this story to anyone, because j the same event can befall on me." and did not stop. A little while after, another automobile with the j public agent came along and,1 see- j ing this gathering of crowd around this child, who was gravely wounded, wound-ed, it stopped to sec what had happened. hap-pened. "Everybody was decrying 'Duce,' but at the appearance of the police they were very cautious. Only Pul-lucca Pul-lucca and Lazzerinl stupidly repeated re-peated that they had recognized the 'Duce." "The agent tcok the child and SEATTLE, F?b. 17. Substantia-tion Substantia-tion of the stoiy told by Gen. Smed-ley Smed-ley Butler coaceining Mussolini's alleged hit-and-iun escapade is con- j tained in a little printed in II Nuovo Hondo, Italian newspaper. Thn paper is ;n anti-fascist labor daily, of which Girolamo Valenti is general manager Valonti ofierd as his proof a letter let-ter fiom an uiinamed person in I Iraly to a friend in New York. The identity of l.'.v italian correspond-! correspond-! ent is kept y:.v.et for fear of reprisals. re-prisals. Letior Printed The letter, as printed, says: j i "TOSCANA, Italy. j "My dear: You say that you wish j to come back. "Wo envy you, that , you are there (in America.) Here, j nobody is sure oi anything. Even j the fascists of the first recruits now frequently, for a word out of place ! are at once arretted and we do not : j know how it winds up. The other : i day at Pullucca, , you remember; Angelo T-ombardi, that person of j rough hands who worked in the ; electric shop, a .Lazzerini, who was the head of the fascisti group at San Quirito, everybody knows, but no one has the courage to talk about it, but fortunately I was present pres-ent when the event occurred. Hoard Big Noi&c Last Sunday x went over there to see about some cattle which I had to buy, and about 2:30 we were hav- j ing a glass of -wine at the Franci. "'All aL once we heard a very big nose from an automobile, and a cry in the street made us come out , in the plaza. The daughter of San-tini San-tini from Stallone, a child of 6 years, was run over by an automobile automo-bile running at high speed, which, j in turning a cussing on a certain curb, by a miiacle it did not go to piece against the wall that -was in iront o this crossing, and in the turning and going across the plaza it hit the child, who was crossing the plaza the plaza in San Quirito. You know on Sundays there are always people, and several of them recognized Mussolini holding the steezing wheel of the automobile, which contained two other persons |