<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <BASE href="x-msg://179/"> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18876"></HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Craig, this story is fascinating. There were two things that came to my mind that I wanted to share. I hope that I'm not boring too many people.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>First, I expect that the doctor called in to attend a gunshot victim who survived for a short period of time would simply be the closest doctor to the scene. If that doctor was in the Vatican, he would be called whether or not the victim was in the Vatican. I'm not sure that I would limit my research to the Vatican archives because that was where the doctor had a work assignment. I would look for records kept by the city of Rome, in their equivalent of an American coroner's report or a French investigating magistrate's report. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>This is just my personal take on what is a riviting story. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>If the death was a suicide, I also would not expect to see newspaper accounts. I'd look for them, but I would not be surprised to see them missing. A suicide in my family took place in Baton Rouge a scant three years ago. When I called the newspaper reporter down there to gather more information, I was told outright that they didn't publish suicides. I got the impression from him that such a shameful act is still to this day kept out of the papers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Good luck in your search!  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=500304400-03032010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Yours, Barbara</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>