Mussolini survives — by a nose

Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini, after he was shot at and wounded in the nose by Violet Albina Gibson in Rome. — Otago Witness, 8.6.1926 Rome, April 7: While Signor Mussolini was leaving the International Congress of Surgery, an elderly woman fired a revolver almost point-blank, wounding him slightly in the nose. Signor Mussolini was quite calm, and immediately gave directions with a view to preventing a disturbance. The woman was with difficulty rescued from the incensed crowd and taken to prison.

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