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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In Rome, Italian police arrested unfrocked Vatican priest Eduardo Prettner for swindling, linked to $450,000 in missing jewels after his flight from Vatican custody. He was found in a suburb with documents; Holy See unfrocked him to enable arrest per Lateran Treaty; he confessed to swindles.
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ROME, March 9.—(AP)—Italian police today announced the arrest of an unfrocked Roman Catholic Priest, 42-year-old Eduardo Prettner. He is a former keeper of the Archives for the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Police had been investigating the disappearance of $450,000 worth of jewels in connection with his flight from the house of arrest in the Vatican last Saturday.
Today's announcement says mobile squads found Prettner in the home of two women in a Rome suburb. Important documents also are said to have been seized. The women are identified as the wife and daughter of a former General of the Fascist Militia.
The Holy See unfrocked the Priest after his flight in order that the police might arrest him without violating the Lateran Treaty. A Vatican announcement said Prettner had confessed to many swindles and falsehoods.
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Rome
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March 9
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priest arrested; $450,000 worth of jewels disappeared; important documents seized; priest unfrocked and confessed to many swindles and falsehoods
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Italian police arrested 42-year-old unfrocked Roman Catholic priest Eduardo Prettner, former keeper of the Archives for the Vatican Secretariat of State, in a Rome suburb home of two women (wife and daughter of a former General of the Fascist Militia). The arrest followed investigation into the disappearance of $450,000 worth of jewels after his flight from Vatican house of arrest last Saturday. The Holy See unfrocked him to allow arrest without violating the Lateran Treaty.