, 1873-01-25
BABY FARMING lin NAPLES.
wholesale Murder of 1nu0ccnta-a1T7es
Porro7s Cl1r1e1 E1OUse, and "has
the Neapolituu Police Found In 1t.

WHOLESALE e Murder of 1muOccnta-11Taes
porre7s Charne1 E1orse, and What
the Neapolitnn Police Found In IT.
From tic Eiyttto Roma, Dec. o8.
Only three doors from the little Chapel OF san
Severe. on tia Etrada Santa Catarina, IN Naples,
the evidences OF q most terrible crime, or rather
series Of terrible cr1mea, we're brought to light,
by the shrewd md daring Guglielmo Cordeban,
Lieutenant Of Police The reraon charged with
tho pe1petration Of these cr1mcs is 8 woman
named Koso porro, upon whose movements tho
keen eyes OF the gendarmery had been for many
months fixed. An advertisement, stating her
name and address, appeared, at brief intervale,
in the Neapolitan Journals, and the pnr-
port Of this publication was that persons
wishing to :relinquish their claim upon
infants would lind home for them by
Rose Porro, So straaa Santa Catarina, near the
Church Of San Severe. Naples. The police gire
epecia1 attention to ambiguous advertisements,
and consequently Mrs. Porro incurred their eus-
picion. Lieutenant Gugielmo Cordeban ln-
Etructed two officers to give their particular At.
teution to the movements Of 1lme. Porro and
all things occurring in the vicinity Of her resi-
dence. To this somewhat Vague task the two
policemen we're assigned On the I'd inEt., and tho
result OF their yigilunce up to the 10th wes that
IN extraordinary number OF babies had been
brought into Mrs. Porros apartments, and that
respects able carriages containing faahlonab1y-
dressed women occasionally pulled up in front
of her nDpTetentious quarters. Tho o5lectof
still ordered the policemen to study tho
movements Of Porro and her visitors: On tho
21st inst. the policemen t"ero again called upon
to report and they again. announced that at IN
teryals infants were carried into Mrs. Porros
residence, and that they had not seen the chill
dren carried out again in any instance but one.
Lieutenant Cordeban then resolved to take pos
session Of Mrs. Porro's house on tho following
Monday, tho 23d inst -,
Furnished with an order Of arrest given on the
eronn1 OF grave suspicious being entertained
against the prisoner, cordeban, accompanied BY
tTo policemen. entered Mrs. Porros 8 house in tho
forenoon and upon meeting La slgnofa hereel1,
he politely furnished her with me document
which placed her in the hands OF the police. A
strong, brave, beautiful, and cunning woman,
she At first assumed an AIR of Innocence and
Vonderment which might have d1sarmeu less
sophisticated detective. But Cordebau Wa7 9n-
account' but through the Prefect's orders, TINT
ehe should he arrested. In. her company was
Younger, but quite as desperate-lookine woman.
Mrs. Porro Was plnced in carriage ana of1Ven
to the Pretect's Chambers on the Cn,a1a; M an wnne
with an order to let no person pass out or N un-
I'll tha Iieutenant returned. The Lieutenant,
With other oaicers, came back at noon, and be-
gan . close search through every part ol tne
Iouse.: On bursting in door y ne & nppe.inGs1 M
fants wero sprawling on the floor, crying irom
enid and hunger The room Was untutnlshed,
End go chilly that the poor little creatures,
prompted 131ta BY nature, huddled together Among
Etl,em vas one stiff and emaciatod little corpse,
which tue olicoTs believed to be only sleeping,
until they touched and stirred It. t.. aav1hnG t1,aGs
proposed to visit the cellar and dig up the tiles
ii Ihe lower door, after having provided for the
starving lttlo ones. In the cellar they
ave childrena corpses, and beneath the aot aes o.
the ground floor, and in the very apartment
Thare Mrs. Porro was arrested, three other
bodies bodies Of % dead infants we're found. The woman
who was in Mrs Po1ros company At the tune o.
the latter's arrest screamed violently and grew
hyBterical as the fatal Developments were @ peing g
made She ras arrested and conveyed slao 70
the Prefect's chambers~ The house was taken zen
in possession by the police, who wu remove the
tiles OF each floor, dig up the cellar, ana inspect
the tptarior Of tho walls to End out the 1uA 93@