Item title reads - Lynching riot at Caruso trial.
Rome, Italy.
Various shots of the palace of Justice. L/S of crowds pushing as Donato Caretto arrives to give evidence for Caruso. Caretto was responsible for handing over Italian antifascists to the Germans. Crowds shout and push, various shots of Colonel Pollock, British head of the allied military police and Lieutenant Atkinson trying to make themselves heard above the noise. The crowd drags Caretto from the court punching and kicking him. He was later thrown in the Tiber and his body was hung up outside his prison. Various shots of people outside.
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