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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1961)
ThUflbDAlf, APRIL 6, 1981 .. Home - wra - a man in a priest's robes entered a bank, pulled a submachine gun from -under, his cassock "and said: "This- is a ..holdup Don't .jnove." .' ..a'Vv.i ; , : . .'. It happened Aug. 20, 1959, in the north Italian village of Bevilacqua. The .'ho Id u p, which netted the phony priest and an accomplice $747 in cash and $9,600 in checks, . was but one of the many in stances in which Italian crim inals have disguised them- serves as priests ornuns. , -' In a country where Roman Catholic priests are numerous ... and respected - and where Criminals Pose As Priests While Executing Some Criminal Acts they have a-sometimes exag gerated reputation for influ ence and power - 'clerical robes have often proved van ideal disguise-for thieves, con men and .other '. small-time crooks. V - - . . .'. ' ., .! ' ; The disguise is so effective that, even he police used it once, but stopped immediate ly following outraged shouts of protest in parliament. Fal Priest - ... , Two crimes by people pos ing as clerics were reported in a single day during Febru ary in different areas of northern Italy. In Verona province, a false priest with a French accent toured the countryside by taxi and asked parish priests to contribute money for "secret charity." At least three priests were swindled out of sums ranging from $8 to $16 each. . Police said, they thought the man was an old acquaint ance who had been posing as a priest since 1958, when he swindled a cloth merchant in a Venice suburb.. ; . ; The same day,, the 'good natured owner of a milk bar in Monza near Milan allowed two "nuns" fatigued from alms-collecting to rest and ea a bite at his place. &norriy alter iney leit, Dar sam tney saw the two nuns owner Carlo Mariani found walk quickly around the cor- that his wife's handbag with ner, board a motorcycle and $800 worth of Jewelry had roar out of town. - :. vanished.- Passers - by later That, of course, was small- Sams 'Valley Pupils Tour Mail Tribune Pupils of the fifth and sixth' grades at Sams Valley school toured the Mail Tribune de partments early this week with their instructor,' Niles Smith. ) ,i.. . . :, ,. Making the tour 'were Jim my Bruton, Monty Burreson, Sue Dessert, Laurel - Miller, Orrin Frederick, Charles Mose, Timmy Pleasant, Steve Jannusch, Joyce McCollum, Beverly Brown, Diana Crane, Michael Croston, Jimmy Deck er, Delia . Fitzgerald, Larry Fry, Sandy Jacobson, Daniel Nelson, Mike Shope and Lou Ann Berkheimer. ! A 1 s o'' accompanying the group were Mr. and Mrs. Ven son Hunt and Mrs. G. S. Fry. time compared with the $10 468 earned at a single stroke by Romualdo de Fonzo, alias "Msgr. Mariano de Ceva," be fore he was arrested in Rome a few years ago. Dl Fonzo, then 36, pulled his elaborate confidence game on Ma reel lo Luconi, a clothes merchant in the town of Pra to, ' to whom he identified himself as an assistant to Msgr. Ferdinando BaldeUi, president of the Pontifical Re lief Organization (POA). , An accomplice contacted Luconi and told him POA had just been donated large quantities of coffee and pep per for distribution to the poor. POA, he said, wanted to sell the pepper and coffee to finance distribution of spa ghetti, i Luconi was interested and "Msgr. de Ceva" sold him the non-existent coffee and Den- Iper. . The fraud was one of many in which self - appointed "priests" claimed influence in big business or politics. In a country where the clergy's influence is in fact consider able - and magnified beyond reality by popular imagina tion - most of the con men found people ready to believe them. The one known case of po lice using a priestly disguise happened in Rome in 1959, when Domenico Nonazzani called a friar to confess his sins and was handcuffed by the "confessor." The phony friar was a mem ber of the national police who had chosen the disguise to shadow Nonazzani, known as a religious maniac. Nonaz zani was wanted on a warrant for insulting a magistate who once sent him to an insane asylum. 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An' inside job would be spot ted just as quickly. CCJ-TV installed a year ago at a cost of $36,000-wlll more than pay for itself in wages saved. One man can now perform the work of six. The network is not without sound. Sound Available , A master control board at the jailer's fingertips can add audio to the . picture on his screen. There are 20 hidden microphones in the jail and a deputy can, with a flick of a switch, cut In a mike m a specific area to monitor con versation. 1 - c There also is an inter-alarm system. ' . ': ' . . Buttons, some in secret lo cations, others plainly -marked In red on corridor walls, are only a few steps away from any location in the cell block, in case a deputy finds himself in trouble. When a button Is pushed, an alarm rings in the jail office and a sign flashes .on the wall showing the location of the disturbance. V The microphones are two way so that deputies ) can carry on a conversation with t command post in the of fice. 1
