New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-06
CAM0RRA TRIAL DRACS ON
italians Object to Excessive In.
terest Taken by U. S. in Case.
NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT
Organization Is Wounded to
Death and Can Never Recover
It's Former Power.

Viterbo. Italy. July .5.-Moro than four
months and half have passed since ths
Camorra trial began. and il can scarcely
be said that tho court is half done With
this case, which has no precedent, At lsas,
IN Italy.
Complaints have been expressed IN Italy
against what they consider tho erccssIvs
interest OF the American press m tho Ga.
mora revelations. az Italians think II 10
3 pity that such trial should havo COIN
cided with the celebration OF the Italian
jubilee. when the young Kingdom desired
above all to show to tho world the prog
ress made IN tho last MY YEARS.
The coincidence which r. 80 deplored.
however, is really . matter for con-
graduation, az II shows that u &. pos
sible now 10 strike p determined blow at
the Camorra. n thing which would have
been impossible hfty years ago, and even
later, when the public life Of the South ws'
entirely subject 70 tho Csmorrs. which vas
tho chief factor in politi-s and master OF
city administrations.
Painful but Healthy Step.
Like tho campaign against hrissndsE'.
like the bank scandals. the Pallzzolo ann
Nasi trials. the Cuocolo murder case II onA
of the painful but healthy steps which ltaY
is taking 10 cancel the lsst remnants OF cor
ruptlon inherited from the ancient regimes
and install the reign Of morality The work
10 accomplish is still difficult and long.
as Is proved at every DAYS citing hero.
where the power of the Cam 1rrs Is still
demonstrated, chiefly through the difficulty
Of collecting evidence and the ieticence OF
the Witnesses, but no one has dared I'D
touch Captain Fabroni and Privates Capez-
zuti and rarris, the heroes Of the bite
struggle against tho association, who ~
other times might have lost their lives. AMI
no ono has threatened either the Prcmicr
or the Minister OF Justice for not stopping
the trial.
II Is history which recounts shat sA'io
snav,n,a. one Of tho noblest figures among
Italian statesmen, when Premier, having
determined 10 stamp out the Csmorra.
helped by General Lalnarmora, fell from
power because OF this, and the first time
he went to Naples he was attacked and
beaten in the streets without II being possi'
bic 10 bring the culprits TO justice ~
the time OF Spsventa when no sent 10
forced domicile thousands of CsmorristS.
crime diminished - per cent IN Naples.
and whom Captain Fsbroni Termed his
squad Of terror" and had the whole po-
lice force Of tho city under his cortrG,
crime diminished 80 per cent.
Holds No More Surprises.
Tho trial az it now stands, although %
Will go on for several months more, holds
no surprises All that could bo said Oh
either side has been said, and the predic-
lions made arc that while there are ample
proofs 10 condemn all the accused fov tho
special crime which in the Italian code IS
called criminal association there IL not
positive and indisputablo evidence TO con-
Wet those accused OF instSatiEg the muir
der or Of having actually committed it, IN
less the jury considers the circumstaptial
evidence good OF which there IS plcnts.
For the crime of being a member Of q
criminal association the penalty goes from
one 10 twelve years in prison, while Tor
murder there is life sentence.
The CamorTa, as a whole, however. u
wounded TO DEATH as its sole existence 50
far depended on tho protection OF those
In high places who were afraid " nu-
being protected b. the Camorri5ts. Ate
this it will be difficult 10 find candidate
10 any public Office who will consider II
an advantage to DO supported by Canon
rists.