Omaha daily bee., 1886-07-12

the 10th of October, ISIS, the Banca Nazion-
ale had to send three portmanteaus filled
with bank notes from their branch Office at
Ancona to their Geneva branch. The total
value of the notes was $500, 900 lire, of which
| 100000 we're contained in one gray port
! manteau.
| TO GUARD AGAINST ROBBERY
or accident, three bank employees the
| cashier called Mellini. clerk named
! Albertine, and Tangherlni, a porter,
| were detailed to escort the notes to their des-
| tination. In due time the escort started with
their treasure. BY next morning the three
portmanteaus reached Genoa, were opened,
and their contents examined. The two first
were in order on opening.
NEAT SUBSTITUTION
In the third, however, which should have
contained 9, 100000 lires it was found that
number of pieces of wood had been ingen-
iously substituted for the packets of notes
The weight of the valise corresponded almost
exactly with that announced The value,
alas, was nil. The neatness and audacity
with which the robbery had been committed
made il clear from the outset that it must
have been planned by the bank officials,
while the ease with which the plan was exc
cuted showed there must have been several
accomplices.
SUSPICION FELL on SEVEN PERSONS:
1, FREDERICK Baccarini; 9, Mellini: 8, Tang
herlini; 4, Quirno Governatori; 3, Eugenlo
Paccapello; 6. Pietro Camilucci; and
especially on Z, Andrea Lorenzett, whose
brother, Edardo, was In the secretslof the bank,
and knew the notes we're to be forwarded to
Genoa.
| ALL WERE ARRESTED
but while the preimi nary inquiry dragged
| In tbo clio Italio RappD-
rini, who was unquestionaby one of the
prime nstigators of the crime, slipped through
the fingers of justice by dying; Mellini,
about the same time, was released; and at
the trial in Rome, Lorenzetti, whom public
opinion had from the first branded as guilty,
was, thanks to the mysterious leniency of the
Judges also released while with the rest of
the prisoners the unhappy porter, Tangher-
lini, against whom the evidence was quite
unconvincing, was sentenced to twelve
| years at hard labor.
TIE VERDICT RoUsED STORM
of indignation and killed Tangherlini's
mother. Before she died, however, she wrote
to the minister of justice denouncing Loren
zetti. After his acquittal Lorenzetti returned
to his native town. Ancona, where he found
himself Stunned by his neighbors. He took
every precaution to avoid giving the law any
pretext for rearresting him but was not quite
cautious enough, for
| IT SOON LEAKED OUT
that he had been paying heavy sums of
money away to number of people, among
them the widow BaccariDi and widow
named Morelli. Moreover. Tangherlini's
friends, who traced him day and night with
the tenacity OF sleuth hounds, discovered that
he was strangely intimate with Nine. Cover
natori. Each fresh discovery was brought to
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quietly set to work, and gradually over thirty
people were entangled in the tolls of the po-
lice.
MORE ARRESTS MADE.
On the 27th of June of last year, the chain
of evidence being thought complete, Loren
zetti, who is an Ancona merchant, Nine.
/ Moreli, Pierin Lazzaro student, and Toni
maso Lopez, a brilliant young barrister who
had defended Governatori at the trial and has
more recently become famous in Rome
through his amorous adventures, his prodi-
notorious Professor Sharbaro were arrested.
Thirty others, more or less implicated, were
also arrested, but over half were released.
ARRAIGNED FOR TRIAL.
Finally sixteen prisoners were on We'd
nesday brought up for trial here charged
with being principals and accessories as to the
robbery of the 100000 lire, or receivers of
the stolen money. Hours before the doors of
the court of assizes were thrown open surg
ing mass of people beseged the building
clamoring for admission. The court room is
very small and was crowded to sutfOcation.
had much difficulty in fighting my way to q
seat.
EXCITEMENT AT THE TRIAL.
Loud and fierce imprecations were invoked
by the mob on the head of Lorenzeti, Lopez
and Governatori, the three chief prisoners
Many tears were shed over the pitiable fate
of Tangherlini, who Is now on all hands adj
mitted to have been innocent. The indct-
ment is a perfect monument of patience and
gives an elaborate explanation of the way in
which the robbery was committed.
THE PLANS EXPLAINED.
The crime had evidently been planned by
Baccarini and the two Lorenzettls. On the
10Th of October, 1878, Edvardo LOrenzetti in
formed his brotherAndrea that the Banca Naz-
onale would two days later dispatch the notes
to Genoa, Knowing the quality and weight of
the notes, and having seen the portmanteaus
; in which they would be packed, Edyardo
,, | had portmanteau of exactly the same size
made and filled it with blocks of wood. On
the evening of the Goth OF October the three
| portmanteaus were put into cab. Edyardo
, | Lorenzetti, Tangherline and Albertne got
, inside the cab. Caccarrini, Governatori and
Andrea Lorenzetti followed them to the sta
ton in another cab, carrying with them the
: portmanteau with the dummy treasure.
= AT THE STATION.
= Baccarlni seems to have got out and en-
|, gagged in conversation with the cashier, Mel
, lin, who was waiting for the Genoa train.
While the cashiers attention was thus d-
verted the portmanteau with the wood blocks
was quickly substituted for the other con-
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ana furry of the moment was easily re-
9 moved By Baccarini and transferred to An
drea Lorenzetti, who carried it to Baccalini's
, house undetected. There, according to the
/, confession of Goyernatori, the accomplices
DIVIDED THE BOOTY.
/, Lopez share in the crime dates from the
= first trial His client Goyernatori, had hid
= den his part of the plunder, but after his con-
a demnation he revealed the hiding place to
! Lopez, who in return for his secret gave him
! a valuable piece OF paper, pledging himself to