Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-02-18
BABY FARMING IN NAPLES.

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BABY FARMING IN NAPLES.
Wholesale MurdeP OF InRoeents Nme POrro's
Chsrnel House, and what tho Police
R0uad In IT, .
(From the Diritto Roma, Dec. 2s.)
Only three doors from the little
chapel of San Severa, on the Strada
Santa CatarIna, in Naples, the evil
deuces of most terrible crime, or rath
er series of terrible crimes, were
brought to light on Monday last by
the shrewd and daring Gugiielmo
Cordebsn, lieutenant of police. The
person charged with the preparation
OF these crimes is woman named
Rose Poro, upon whose movements
the keen eyes of the gendarmerie
had been tor many months fixed.
An advertisement stating her name
aud address appeared at brief inter-
walls in the NeapoIitan Journals, and
the purport of this publication was
that persons fishing to relinqui~h
their claim upon infants would find
q home for them by calling upon
and paying a certain sum TO
Mrs. Rose Porro, SO s rada Santa
CAtarina, ,ear the church ofSan Sew
emo, Naples. The police gave spec.
ial attention TO ambiguous advertise
ments and consequently Mrs. Porro
incurred their suspicion. Lieu, enaut
GnglieImo Cordeban instructed two
officers 70 give their particular at
tention TO the movements of Nine
Psrro, and all things occurring in
the vicinity of her residence. To
this somewhat vague tack the two
policemen were assigned and the 81
inst, and the result If the vigilance
up 10 the 10Th was that
AK EXTRAoRDINARYN OF BABIES
had been brought into Mrs. Porro's
apartm hts, and that respectable car.
riages. containing tashionaoly Dress
ed women, occasionally pulled up
in front of her unpretentious quar-
ters. The object of Corded ,u's sus-
picions became moro clear, but be
still ordered the police TO study he
movements of P0rro and her visit
ors. On the 2lst inst. the police
were called upon to report, and they
again announced that al inter walls in
fants were carried into Mrs. Porro's
residence, and that they had not
seen the children carried out again
in any instance but one. Iieut.C lr
deban then resolved TO take possess.
ion of Mrs. Porro's house on the fol-
loving Monday. the 23d INST.
Furnished with an order Of arrest
given on the ground of grave suspic-
ions being entertained against the
prisoner, Cordeban, accompanied by
two policemen, entered Mrs Porro's
house in the forenoon. and upon
meeting LaSignora herself ho polite
ly furnished her with the document
which placed berin the power of the
police A strong, brave,
BEAUTIFUL AND CUNNING WOMAN,
she at first assumed an air of Inno-
cence and wonderment which might
have disarmed q less sophisticated
detective. But Curdeban was unre-
lentiug, ard assured her that it was
not on his account but through the
Projects order that she should BE- ar
rested In her company was a
younger but quite "a desperate look.
ing woman. Mrs. Porro was placed
in carriage and driven to the Pre-
fect's chambers on the Chisja, white
two officers were left 10 charge of
her house, with an order TO let no
one pass out or in until the Lieuten.
ant returned. The Lieutenant with
other officers. came back at noon and
began a close search in every part of
the house. On bursting in door
on the upper story, pitiful sight
presented itself. Six infants wtre
sprswling on the floor, crying from
cold aud hunger. The room was un.
furnished and so chilly that the poor
little creatures, prompted by nature,
huddled together. Among them was
one stiff and
| EVACUATED LITTLE coRPaE,
which the officers believed to be only
sleeping, until they touched and stir.
red it. Having searched the upper
portions Of the house, they proposed
to visit the cellar and dig up the
tiles OF the lower floor, and after hav-
ing provided for the starving little
ones. In the cellar they discover, d
FIVE chiIdren's corpses. aud beneath
the ground door, and under the very
apartment where Mrs. Porro was ar.
rested. the other bodies of dead in
fsnts were found. The woman VIII,
was in Mrs. Porro's company at the
time Of the lstter's arrest screamed
violently and grew hysterical as the
fatal Developments were being
made. She was arrested and con-
veyed also to The Projects chamber.
fhe house was taken 10 possession
by the police, who will remove the
titles of each door, dig up the cellar
aud inspect the interior Of the walls
to 6nd out the full extent of this
grievous roll Of infanticides. Up to
this date Mrs. Porro has made nc
statement indicative of her guilt
Her partner, Marguerite Coraldi, i,
equally as obstinate. But the polio,
assert that they have traced on
abundant proof of the wholesale muir
DER from other Quarters,