The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-18

I bourse, the cour famiI counds
Ell tions-to comp the sui bss |it,
m lbers or those 10 have bue II,
8, bort, or to fore tribute pm pst
n yof its membersn It / owd m
md fear and mystef have hapnii n
its power, for no one knows who doe
-or who may not-belong to it. The
Government is trying to break it up
but the law is powerless since it is un.
eqpYofsedl IN thf 4afa ot citizens, gl
thf0ugk feaf Or Shr6ak u 6oMplcity. f.
root out the cancer it will be necessary
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OF late the manifestations of this
society have become exceptionally bold,
till the end has heenia murder in the
street at high noon and the popular
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and furnished it with valuable informa-
ton as to the ramifcations, operations
and plans of the organization. Finally
he was suspected, the Grand Council
detected his guilt, and sentenced him
to death by way of warning to members
tempted to be, pnfaithful.y A, fortnight
ago at night someone knocked at Dor.
,relli's. door and gave his daughter a
package for him: From whOm?''
asked the girl. "Your father will
KNOW" replied the unknown messen-
ger; ehastening Avay. !, The girl took it
to her father; lie opened Il and found
its contents an apparently innocent pile
of maccaroni. He turned deadly pale
at once, for he knew the significance of
the message, which was in effect a
death-warrant. Such a parcel the
Grand Council sends to suspected men,
bers. If they do not appear before it
to prove their innocence, their death is
decreed by the default, and the work of
assassination is confided to three of the
giovani Tonore.
Borrelli seems to have kept all to
himself, hoping, perhaps, to escape by
watchfulness, or perhaps being con-
vinced that it was hopeless to fly. Some
eight days later, as he was walking
with his daughter near the corner of
the street Borgo di ,Loreto, the three
agents of the CamOrra surrounded him.
He had not time to defend himself, or
even to suspect their motive. The girl
saw a poniard flash and her father fall;
she screamed and stopped to pick up q
dead man. The assassins disappeared.
No one saw them, or else no one cared
to arrest them.
Early next morning one of them came
in to the barracks of the carbineers at
Aran, accompanied by a priest, and
avowed his guilt. His name was Raj
faele opposite, a young man of twenty,
who had several times been convicted
of theft. On being subjected to a pre-
examination he sail almost
with arrogance that he and Lc alone
had killed Borrelli, and that he gloried
in the killing, It was, however, for
private reasons that he had done so.
His mother, said opposite, had had a
quarrel not long before with some
friends to whom she owed money; from
words they came to blows, he inter-
ferred to protect his mother and struck
a woman who was Borrelli's mistress,
and Borrelli warned him that he would
have him locked up, which would not
have been very difficult, since he was
an Gnsnso,sito-a person under police
surveillance. He tried to induce Bor-
relli to relent, but in vain, and then
killed him to insure his own liberty.
This was Esposito's story, told as if
it had been well conned, not improba-
BILE altogether, but presenting motive
that. the average magistrate or man
would certainly regard as inadequate.
After telling it he was sent under a
strong escort to the Prison of San Fran
cesco, arriving at its gates just at noon.
The square was crowded with people,
every Camorriste known or suspected
was there, every member of the crimi-
nal classes of Naples. 1t was impossi-
BILE that their assembling should have
been a matter of accident. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY an organized demonstration.
No sooner was opposite seen by the
throng than it burst into q frenzy of
hands and applauding cries.
i" There he is!' cried some; and
+" Bravo, bravo" others, and flowers
and sweetmeats were rained upon him
as if he had been hero returning from
victory. So eagerly did the crowd
press round the prisoner, who was
and bowling his thanks, that the
prison authorities, seeing that the es-
cort could not force its way to the gates
sent out strong platoon of soldiers.
There was not the slightest attempt at
a rescue, however; the Camorra does
not do its work in that manner At
present it is EspositO's duty to cover
the traces of his friends and chiefs;
when the time comes, the society will
bring its influence to bear upon Judge
or jury in his behalf and set him at lib
erty. Thus the murderer and his keep
ers entered the Prison of San Frances
CO, the heavy gate Changing to behind
him, inaudible in the cheers and clap
ping of hands, Id which the prisoners
within joined loudly. opposite was the
hero Of the day. He had won his spurs
by a brilliant assassination; he had
killed at once q traitor and an officer of
the police, and he had openly avowed
his guilt of a capital offense to shield
his superiors. r~
But the demonstration did not suf-
fee. The assassin had been worshiped,
the victim must be insulted. Borrelli' 8
body had been placed in q headhouse or
small chapel hard by to wait the autop-
sy; the mob fastened thither and tried
to break in the heavily grated doors.
Failing in this, they showcred stones
and filth from the streets in thorough
the gratings and windows upon the
corpse. This disgusting scene lasted
till evening, when the crowd withdrew,
the prudent police not having dared to
interfere. -.
Pleasant state of things in q city of
$50, 900 souls.-Naples Cor. N. =. World.
Giving the Royal Assent,
The Clerk on the right hand of the
table before the woolsack In the House
of Lords takes up . bill, and turning
round so as TO face the Royal Commits
sioners, bows low, the Clerk 1T the other
side performing at the same time pre-