The sun., 1893-02-24
ADDITION DIVISION. AND SILENCE
Are Frset,sea IN Italy n. Essetunlly .s Else-
Hkere. hut In nlnsrent KnYe.

hohh- req Ut 10 not an unmixed pleahure
at this time to be q bank director or to have
anything to do with banks In Italy. Four
financial persons Of Importance. only a month
ago regarded with confidence and approached
with respect by everybody who had money to
invest or n loan to negotiate. all OF them Com
| manders. or Com m ndatore OF one or another
OF the Italian orders OF knighthood. are now
languishipg In the cells OF a Roman prison
and undergoing the inquisitorial torments OF
examination OF a Judge OF instruction"
NTH. a director OF the Bank OF Sicily.
also Commentators and baron to boot. was
found murdered in q railway train on Feb. l
between his property. near Sciarra. and tho
Rreat city OF Palermo. where his wife and his
friends were awaiting his arrival at the sta
ton. In this nth case tho murder was i'm
mediately attributed ut Palermo and in the
neighborhood TO some person or persons
threatened by the imminent disclosure OF
financial transactions. upon which the
murdered director it was believed. might
throw troublesome light. 1t does not appear
that any one imputes to the murdered Com
mendatore Notarbartolo any improper con-
duct In connection with the bank OF which he
was director but such indications ss were ut
once obtained OF the circumstances In which
he was murdered pointed to a very dot termined
purpose to put him out OF the way. Two per-
| sons who were seen to follow him into FIRST
class carriage at the first way station beyond
his property are described as OF very gentle
manly appearance" They are not likely to
have been malefactors. for the train on which
he was travelling was carrying to Palermo n
number OF criminals escorted BY police off,
| GERS and by no fewer than forty carbineers."
| Notarbartolo himself was accom- pa MED in
another carriage by two confidential servants
and by two carbineers. Some fifteen years
| ago Notarbartolo. then only 80 years old was
carried or by brigands from his property and
| held for ransom. md since that time he had
never travelled without alert and we'll informed
attendants knowing the country and oil the
suspicious characters who infest 1t. 1t is OBJ
vious. therefore. that an alarm must have
been given by Notarbnrtolo had nuy persons
OF doubtful aspect got into the railway COM
| partment in which he was Mt first alone. The
presumption. indeed. would seem to be that
the two mon OF gentlemanly aspect" who rot
| into his compartment may have been person.
ally known to him. No fewer than twenty six
dagger wounds wore found on the body when
search was made for 1t after the arrival OF tho
train at Palermo. Tho rack in the compnrt-
ment was found wrenched. as though in q vio-
| lent struggle. and the cushions and carpets
wero covered with blood. In some yet unex-
planned way the wife and friends Of No.arbar-
| tolo. who had expected him. were notified be-
| fore tho arrival OF the train that he WAS
| not coming. and thereupon left tho sta
tion. so that news OF tho murder did
not reach them until some time afterward.
The body was discovered lying beside the rail-
way track Just at the mouth OF tunnel on tho
| line. as II the m urder had been committed in
tho tunnel and the body thrown out OF the
| compartment as the train emerged from it. 1t
was an evening train and no notice seems to
have been taken OF any passenger alighting
! from 1t between this tunnel and Palermo. A
silver watch. small sum OF money. some forty
lire. n waterproof and rifle belonging to tho
murdered man had disappeared. But it was not
| inferred from this that savage murder had
been committed by casual thieves for the SAX O
| OF such trfiing booty on a train carrying so
many policemen and carbineers. More light
doubtless will be thrown upon this mysterious
| crime in the course OF the thorough innuirios
which lis now obvious must be made into the
network OF the bank scandals with which the
Italian politicians and the Italian press are
| now as busy rs are the press and the politi-
| clans OF France with tho Panama affair.
The four financial Commentators low locked
| up in Rome are in the hands of the ordinary
functionares OF the ordinary criminal law {:
and tho Italian Prime Minister. Giolitti. won
! toward tho end OF January. n great apparent
parliamentary victory by defeating propo-
sition made by Cojanni. and supported by
| SElSpls tHdt tHe Wholc Ot tu6 AlleEeu
bank scandals should be examined by Par
lamentary Commission. Within n week. how
ever. after this victory the Minister found 1t
| necessary to ask the Italian Parliament. In
| accordance with the Constitution. for permis-
| sion to prosecute a leading Deputy. Rocco di
| ierbi. for alleged completely In certain NAL
versations OF tho funds OF the Banca Romana.
Rocco di Yerbi. well-known and most popu-
lar public man Of Naples, is q politi-
| cal opponent OF Giolitti The charges
made against him were preferred by
Tanlong Governor oi the Banca Eomana.
one OF the four Commentators now locked UP
In Rome. or course 1t is not likely that tho
political friends OF Di Yerbi will let pass the
| occasion afforded them by the proceedings
against him for revivinC tho demand for u
| general Parliamentary inquest into the con-
nection which exists. or which Is alleged to
! exist. between the largo overissue OF notes by
| the Banca Romano and the Misrepresentation
| OF the funds OF other banks and the exi-
gencies OF political life in Italy. Com
mendatore Tanlongo. hitherto considered
most grave md reverend seigneur
Of great wealth. frugal tastes. and unimpeach-
able private life. is alleged or alleges himself
to have been led into the abuse Of his trust by
leading politicians. who needed funds to carry
out elections and who played upon Tanlongo's q
| innocent passion for stars and orders and po-
litical distinction. Tanlongo had in fact Just
| been appointed Senator OF the kingdom when
| the arrest OF the cashier Of the Banca Romano.
Commentators I.azzaroni. led to the disclosure
OF the great overissue OF notes by that bank.
| 1t is through Tanlongo. II through anybody.
that the direct connection between the scan.
das in the Italian banks and tho parliament-
ary politics OF Italy will be established.
The three other mmendatore. Tanlongo's 8
companions in captivity. Lazzaroni. cashier
OF the Banca Romano; Cuciniello. agent in
| Rome OF the Banca di Napoli. and Monzilli. a
high officer OF the Ministry OF Agriculture.
seem to have got into trouble In the ordinary
way by spending money which did not belong
to them In personal extravaganza and riotous
living. Monzilli. not himself bank officer. is
charged with cooking up favorable report on
| the condition OF the Banca Romano for con-
sideration. When Giolitti defeated in January
the motion for a Parliamentary inquiry. he
commanded much applause by asserting that