Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-22
GET ITALY'SROBR ROY.
"Errioone." Chief of Camorra,
 Held at Now York.
ROMANTIC YOUNG BANDIT IN TOLLS

ROMANTIC YOUNG BANDIT IN TOLLS Charged With Assassinations at Na.
 pies, Where He Was Held by Peo.
 pie as Demigod. He Escapes
 to America.
 NEW YORK. April PA police raid on an obscure resort in the under ground world of the east side has brought to light the romantic story of an Italian bandit, fantastic Neapoli- tan Rob Roy of great secret power, who, fleeing from his native country to escape arrest for assassination, came to America to wield the same power which was his abroad.
 The man is Enrico Alfano, called "Erricone," head of the mysterious "Cammorristi di Napoli" or Camorra, an Italian organization of terrorists. When the police raided the east side den Alfano was discovered crouching in a corner seeking to escape the glare of the policeman's lantern. He has been held on the charge of murder, but unless the necessary requfsition papers arrive from Italy or some strong representations are made from Rome to the government at Washing ton 1t seems likely he will be given his freedom.
 Death was the punishment indict- ed on one Cuocolo, pretender to ths position of ruler of the Cammorr'sti, and Alfano is declared to be the slayer of his rival. The pretender was lured to. forest. where he was stabbed to death, 1t is claimed, by Alfano and his conspirators. Then the wife of Cuoco- 10 was condemned. Alfano and his men called at the Cuocolo home, and when the wife opened the door she was stabbed, her body pierced by . dozen slender shafts of steel.
 The assassinations spurred the gen. darmes of Naples to extraordinary ac- tivities. Alfano and the conspirators, always protected by the far reaching Camorra, seemed immune from prose- cution. Indeed, the bandit was held by the populace as demigod, pos sessed of mystic powers, free to roam at will unharmed because enveloped with some divine authority, invulnera- ble as to bullets and impossible of cap ture.
 With its stronghold at Naples, the Camorra stretched out in all directions, carrying on systematic terrorism, rob- berries, blackmail and other forms of crime, a huge and fine spun web to enmesh many victims, which was di- rected always by Alfano and which al- ways safeguarded him from misad- venture. Then suddenly Alfano dis appeared.
 The scene changes quickly to Ameri- ca and to the Italian settlement of New York. The Camorra, like the Mafa, thrived and was feared here. too, with all its sinister machinations which baffied the police even the Ital- ian detectives. By the New York Ca morrn the chief was greeted with many honors. A feast was prepared in recognition of the coming of the leader, and Alfano was banqueted at the Pattrochi. But this feast was his undoing. He was spied upon by follower of the murdered pretender. and the word was passed to Petrosini and Archiopolli. New York's Italian detectives. Their subsequent descent upon the east side underground resort ended the bandits liberty.
 Alfano is young, not much over thir- ty-nve, and of 1.-the and graceful build. His face, of dark Italian regularity, would be insistently handsome if it were not marred by an ugly scar ex- tending from his mouth almost to his left ear, an enduring remembrance of an encounter with an enemy.
 He was attended by counsel. who asked for. bail, which the justice re- fused. Alfano was committed to the Tombs.
 Details have been obtained at Naples of the escape from Italy of Erricone, whose extradition is sought for by the Italian authorities. The police author ities, who had long suspected him of being connected with the Camorra. or dered squad of gendarmes to arrest him, but Alfano was notified and went from village to village under varied disguises. At San Leucio. near Caser- ia, the gendarmes surrounded house in which Alfano was concealed, but the Camorra chief succeeded in escap- fng. The gendarmes, however. began closing in on Alfano. who eventually secured false passport and escaped to the United States disguised as . stoker.