Last week a quite insignificant Roman shopgirl, Signorina Giovanna Fabbro, attempted suicide by jumping off the great Ponte Cavour into the Tiber, was restrained by Fascist police, lectured by a Fascist magistrate.
Next evening she ascended the Pincian Hill, leaped off the 40-foot embankment of the sometime Borghese Gardens, landed in a net spread by Fascist police "to discourage the frequent occurrence of suicides at this place," was haled before another Fascist magistrate, clapped into jail "until morning."
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