Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-12
Prisoners Languish for Years IN
Italian Jails Awaiting Trials.

| such thing as bail for crimina offenses
If they can afford it, aIleviations IL
| food and comforts are allowed from
| outside II they are poor so much TIL,
| worse for them Thus an innoceni
mans affairs may go to absolute rui,
and his Wife and family be cast upon
the street and public charity. yet he hal.
no redress. This is the reason thai
both innocent and guilty at once talk,
to cover OH the least hint of danger
10 he taken isfatal; If they can hidA
for a while their innocence may he
proved while they are a liberty.
INNOCENT AFTER ALL
Another ancient crime Just nov jldg,
ed and concluded, and which illustrate:
this point. IS that of the murder oi
Baron Sapnrito, brother OF the wet
known SiciItan deputy, who has beer
the head of 50 many parliamentar.
commissions TO enquire into the Cnmor.
IN and doubtful doiugs in the south
Deputy Suporito Was the chief cause o!
bringing cX-Mnistcr NaSi to trial. ant
has always believed thattho latter has
Il moral Influence In the murder of hi,
brother The latter was murdered sew
en- and a half years ago so that tbs
accused men. now proved to be limo
cent, have been seven years in prison
turning in that time from cdnpara-
lively young men into middle-aget
ones. There is no way OF rcgaining o.
rer%nsins those lost precious years.
CHANGE or VENUE.
The now famous F'iippo cifariell,
trial exhibited Italian justice in Il new
light while retaining the textures o.
the old. While three years haVa passed
since this Neapolitan sculptor murdered
his wife in a lit OF Jealousy, he is yet
unjudSed for the prime reason tha'
while i trial WAS INSTITUTED this sprtns
1t Was considered that the Jurors were
altogether too sympathetic with tbs
prisoner, the judge Was not above sus
picion. and the public, not only mad,
no secret of its opinion, hut frequently
took . hand in tine proceedings ~ iaFi
even this accommodating judges PIT,
tiencc found its limit and the tf!al hns
been postponed, perhaps Ton y"ars, any.
way for months and when II comes Or
again it Viii take place in the north
at Bologna on Turin, where tina PTiSonei
is not known. and where the public does
mot carc one way OF IN" either Int
jurors wcrp furious NJ this, calling it
'miScHrrmgc al Justice" Incidentally
they objected tn beng deprived eE ss.2li
was really "a ;lleGl u scene as ehod 70,
a play" I'll which they hal the prnAS
satisfaction Of being prominent actors
1T is useless 90 clilnge t'n |helt
you Will all over Italy. tiIatiello AAl
llOI !llIIl Il jN4l nun ''N''
him with its ayeg shut nne erras2
juror declared.
\ characteristic case shows aaothsi
phase OF Italian Jaw. l. a.. lint gwen u
confessed guilt uf a prisoner docs moi
hurry his trial y certain GashIe fnnf-
dered an elderly n0n Of good 1 RS y
1895. in PerugEa and when ARRESTED
Shortly after. confessed hiE guilt %G-,
withsfandue thar ae hHs jast beer
piacca on tFlal, tf course ~ saea
Sc The lawyers for TIN tlrfe1sa 1aas
every eNctis.t To fui oil the rTiIl the!i
client IS sure 70 30 given 5ailS fears
In prison. but the tiile spent ~ Fstsof
before the TRIAL IS iefl'let5t; ff7Hl his
allowed certain pllviieeg5. Sua'l az sec.
ing his family and tfleIttlS rsSilnF
writing, better tagd and lodgin2, SO Iit
desires nlUlc1ify Lu pruluEg tt1e pet.1c
as long Us possible,
HARDEST ON THE INNOCENT
Casale expects to spend the neSt &
years ut least IN prison. ana now Ilai
his trinl mas finally come IL wiz irph-
(conunued on rage fouueen