The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-22
MURDER OF INNOCEHTs.
BABY Farmi.s In Naples.

! baby Farming In Naples.
From the Dtritto Roma, December &l
Only three doors from the little chapel
of San Severe, on the Strada SAINTS
Catarins, in Naples, the evidences Of q
most terrible crime, or rather series Of
terrible crimes, were brought to light
on Monday last by thu shrewd and dsr-
ing Guglielmo Cordebsn, Lieutenant Of
Police. The person charged with the
preparation OF these crimes is woman
named Rose Porro, upon whose move
ments the keen eyes of the gendarmery
had been for many months
fixed. An advertisement stating
her name and address appeared
at briet intervals in the Neapolitan
journals, and the purport of the pub
LEGATION was that persons wishing to re-
linquish their claim upon infants would
find home for them by calling upon
and paying a certain sum TO Mrs Rose
Porro, SO Strada Santa Cstsrina, near
the church Of San Severe, Naples. The
police give special attention to ambigu-
GUS advertisements, and consequently
Mrs. Porro incurred their suspicion.
Lieutenant Guglielmo Cordeban in
structed two officers to give their par
ticular attention to the movements Of
Nine. Porro and all things occurring in
the vicinity of her residence To this
somewhat vague task the two police
men were assigned on the End inst,
and the result Of their vigilance up to
the 10th was that
AN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF BABIES
had been brought into Mrs. Porros
apartment, and that respectable car
riages containing fashionably dressed
women occasionally pulled up in front
Of her unpretentious quarters. The OBJ
ject of Cordeban's suspicion became
more clear, but be still ordered the
policemen to study the movements o.
Porro and her visitors On the 2lst
inst the policemen were again called
upon to report, and they again an
nounced that at intervals infants were
carried into Mrs Porro residence, and
that they had not seen the children car
ried out again in any instance but one.
Lieutenant Cordeban then resolved to
take possession of Mrs. Porro's house
on the following Monday, the 23d
inst
Furnished with an order OF arrest
given on the ground Of grave suspicious
being entertained against the prisoner,
Cordeban, accompanied by two police.
men, entered Mrs. Porro's house in the
forenoon, and upon meeting La Signora
herself, he politely furnished her with
the document which placed her in the
power OF the police. A strong, brave,
BEAUTIFUL AND CUNNING WOMAN,
she at first assumed an air OF innocence
and wonderment which might have dis
armed a less sophistical detective. But
Cordeban was unrelenting, and assured
her that it was not on his account, but
through the Projects order that
she should be arrested. In her
company was a younger, but
quite as desperate looking wo-
man. Mrs. Porro was placed in a
carriage and driven to the Projects
chambers, on the Chias, while the two
officers were left in charge Of the
house, with an order to let no person
pass out or in until the Lieutenant re-
turned The Lieutenant, with other
officers, came back at noon and began
a close search through every part
of the house On bursting in q
door on the uppermost story, pitiful
sight presented itself. Six infants were
sprawling on the floor, crying from cold
and hunger. The room was unfur-
nished and so chilly that the poor little
creatures, prompted by nature, huddled
together Among them was one stiff
and
EVACUATED LITTLE CORPSE,
which the officers believed to be only
sleeping until they touched and stirred
it. Having searched the upper portion
of the house they proposed to visit the
cellar and dig up the tiles of the lower
floor, after having provided for the
starving little ones In, the cellar they
discovered five children's corpses, and
beneath the tiles OF the ground floor,
and in the very apartment where
Mrs. Porro was arrested, three other
bodies OF dead infants were found.
The woman who was in Mrs. Porro's
company at the time OF the latter's ar.
rest screamed violently and grew hys~
terical as the fatal developments were
being made. She was also arrested and
conveyed to the Projects chambers.
The house was taken possession OF by
the police, who will remove the tiles
of each floor, dig up the cellar, and in
spect the interior OF the walls to find
out the full extent of this grievous roll
Of ;nfanticides. Up to this date Mrs.
Porro has made no statement indicative
of her guilt. Her partner, Margarine
Coraldi, is equally obstinate. But the
police assert that they have traced out
abundant proof of the wholesale muir
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