The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-07
CRISP, EX-PREMIER OF ITALY,
SAID TO BE ONE OF MALTA.
Amazing Revelations in Connection With the
Murder Of the Marquis NotarbartoIo.

interruption: how all the discoveries which
he, had made and brought to the notice
of the authorities were pooh-poohed and
pigeonholed, while he himself was obliged
to be constantly on his guard in order to
avoid sharing the fate Of his father; how
his house had been repeatedly broken into.
his papers stolen, his baggage rified Of Its
contents while he was travelling by land
and by sea. In fact, he showed how
throughout these eight years he has been
fighting without ceasing in the dark
against a band Of enemies comprising Of
ncials of high and low degree whose one
object was to put stop in some manner
or another to his researches.
some discriminating Testimony.
Encouraged by this denunciation, Com
mandar Lucchese, a North italian, for
merIy project OF police In Sicily, now re-
tired on pension, testified that though
with the independence characteristic Of
the Piedmontese he had honestly done
his utmost to bring the perpetrators of
the murder to Justice, yet all his efforts
had been frustrated by this same all
powerful influence, namely, that of Paliz-
zolo. He bore witness to the fact that
the reports which he himself and his
inspector OF carabineers or gendarmes
Cervis, had made to the authorities had
either never reached the latter, or, II re-
ceived, had been destroyed by some Of
fetal hand. since not one of the reports
figured in the dossier or collection OF pa
pers relating to the crfme He called
attention to the fact that on the same
day that the murder was committed the
report drawn UP by the government In
spector of banks on the subject of the
Bank of Sicily, and containing the charges
against Palizzolo. had mysteriously dis
appeared from the desk OF the minister OF
finance at Rome, and had never been
rno va1 he hav1r fvr~r ATT ~ ALI
dying so shortly afterward that he was
unable to rewrite or to draw 1t up afresh.
He told how two days prior to the murder
a meeting of notorious criminals had been
held at the residence Of Palixzolo, at
which the murder of the Marquis Mortar
bartolo was decided upon. Then he re-
lated how one of these criminals. known
as a blindly submissive and obedient tool
of Palizzolo. had been recognized in a
crowd of more than one hundred men by
the station master of Termini as having
got into the apartment adjoining that
of the nobleman, after, first Of all, in
quisitively peering into the latters win
dow in order to see II his victim was
there. The man was arrested, while the
station master was placed in the house
of detention with the praiseworthy OBJ
ject of protecting him from intimidation
But before the station master had been
a month under lock and key he was al
lowed by the examining magistrate, who
must now be regarded as having been In
league with Palizzolo, to Withdraw hiA
deposition and to swear to a statement
that he could not possibly have recog-
nized the man, since he himself was nb-
sent from the railroad station at the time.
On the strength of this he was set free
and shipped on with hot haste with his
family to Tunis, where he now lives, do
ing nothing. in receipt of considerable
sums of money which reach him from
Sicily.
OF course. the man whom he had recog-
nized was Immediately afterward restored
to freedom, and 1t was only later that
Commander Lucchese was able to secure
proof that the alibf on the strength OF
which the station master had withdrawn
his first deposition was untrue, since the
station master had been on duty at the
Termini station throughout the entire day
of the murder, and had mentioned to a
number Of persons -afterward the fact that
he had said 'Good-morning!'' to the mar
quis. who was In the train on his way to
Palermo
Palixzolo q Malta Leader.
Lucchese. who spent number of years
in police duty In Sicily. also furnished evil
dence of the most incontrovertible nature
that Palizzolo has for ten years or more
been the acknowledged and recognized chief
IL not all the crimes committed by that as
ISOLATION. and has been, thanks to this, not
only the most powerful man in the entire
island, but able to keep the whole Of the
population in state of abject terror.