The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-22
MY RUN The hAF|A
NotabartoIo Case Reveals the
Orders Workings.
ITALIAN DEPUTY ACCUSED
BY the Son of the Incorrup-
tible SiciIian Banker.
ITALIAN DEPUTY ACCUSTED
Foreign Correspondence of the Chicago
Tribune by Oscar Durante.1

| Rome Dec. Public opinion in Italy
is just now more greatly occupied with
/ the outcome of the trial that has just
| opened in the Assize Court at Milan
than it is in the possible fate of the Pei
loux ministery of the profits to be drawn
from the gold mines lately discovered in
the Italian colony in Africa.
The trial was instituted in the first in
| stance to try two men accused of the
nurer of the banker. Notarbartolo. but
/ has brought TO light so many Of the ex-
| PLOTS of the Malta that the NotabartolC
/ case becomes but an episode.
! From the Noatbarolo case the trial has
! spread until now it involves not only
! the two accused men in the dock. but a
member of Parliament, Deputy Rafael
! Pahzolo, and no one can say how many
more besides.
| clearly understood a few facts relating
/ to the origin Of the case may be stated.
Emanuel Notabarolo, the murdered man.
was native of Sicily, who had a greqt
! influence in the administration Of all pub
&c affairs in Palermo. and especially re
afGjng the Bank of Sicily OF which nc
became in a short time the director.
He rapidly acquired the reputation OF
being an innexible advocate - the strict
est honesty and probity IN all affairs con-
| nected with business matters and would
tolerate nothing that savored In the
slightest degree OF corruption.
He made no distinctions of class or
wealth, but excited the same measure
Of righteousness from ali who came
within his influence The corruption in
the administration Of Palermo and the
Bank of Sicily was becoming daily more
notorious, while Nota5arClo in his fight
against it became the representative of the
reactionary movement for honesty.
Though no fault was to be found IN
either his public or private life he was
prosecuted and watched by those whose
plans he was interfering with His hon
esty and uprightness were the direct
cause Of his death. He was murdered on
the evening of the Dist of January, 1892
while travelling in a railway carriage
from Messina to Catania.
He had entred a frst-class compart-
ment alone, but at an intermediate sta
ton man had been seen to enter the
compartment and take a seat in the op-
posite corner.
The theory Of the murder is that tht
banker was murdered while the train was
passing through tunnel, whea the win
dows Of the car were shut, and the body
thrown out afterward. 1t was found near
a bridge where it had fellen.
As soon as the dredful fast was known
in Palermo the police endeavored TO find
out the persons who had committed the
crime and the causes of it. Many peo-
pie were arrested, but by the degrees that
the inquest proceeded the tracks of the
criminal plot vanished so that the pris-
oners, after being questioned several
times, were released and the matter re-
manned just al the same point as it was
at the commencement of the inquest.
In the years that have passed. but slight
hope was left of unfolding the mystery.
Some of the men who had been taken
prisoners said while in the Jail that the
persons who had committed the crime
were Joseph Carollo and Pancras Car
uffi. the first a conductor and the other
a brakeman, who were both on duty on
the rtain wherein Banker NOt3barolO
had been killed. and certain Fontana,
against whom, however, sufficient profs
could not be found. Carollo and Garufi
are now before the Asslzes in Milan. The
former is the less attractive Of the two.
His yellow face and shifting glance re-
veal an astute and dangerous man.
More serious Of countenance and less
cowardly is the accused Garufi, a. frank
Sicilian, with large black eyes and big
mustache They had both been arrested
and released twice on the same charge
that now hangs on their heads. But the
trial now revealed another parsonage in /
the drama, who until recently. had re-
manned unsupported. the Deputy Paliz- /
zolo.
Owing to the belief that justice might !
IL the trial had been held in 4
it was taken before the Court
Of Aszlzes al Milan. At the beginning.
among the first witnesses was young
and handsome naval officer. Sir Leopold
Nota baroIo. the son OF the victim. who
had imposed upon himself the mission 70
discover the murderers OF his father.
from whom ne had inherited a brave and
irm character.
Speaking in the court room, he said
boldly that his mathar had been killed b.
mandate Of Deputy Paiazzolo and some
,ther high CuHctionary o. the bank.
Deputy Pa,izzolo wrote ard published
letter IN his own defense asserting
nat nobody in Paime-o doubted his in
socence Of she charge and zsc-t5ed this
accusation % the yolrz man AZ the prom
,tings Of a mind disturbed ay grief and
.or~ow His defense Tzs c0nsi5e-e4
weak one. 80 ne followed fl 5y telegraph
nr the authorities in Milan asking 70 Re
.it uDon TRIAL
Ills efforts. however. did not lessen the
ceiling thar prevailed and he vas soon
.strarizad 6y h.s feli5w members q the
"a IT 5e- ard retired for a tine % bis
me ia Palermo.
Pal zzclo S. a si-i'la- land owner. and,
Ike the murdered man. occupied many
1bii- Offices in Paiermo. and wzs also
counselor Cor the Bznk II s.ci]y. aere
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q obstacle 20 the fgIa..r1sut y hlz erin
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4 few Eaa-s before the Slei .En reraiE-
7a taa- roarA: ID gnitg - Is7ly ;b@es
as sart - .eaEGe at rerlsaree against
b. police. and owing 90 tae zssessisy 1sE
zsssse. The loser as sell - tse afRnter
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