Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-03-24
Aogo ITALIAN PRIEST ENAcTs
An IMPREssIvE COURT
Room SCENE.
OFFERS A HYPOTHETICAL PRAYER
Ysrrs,jses' Chief shows Contempt for
psswspapsr Photographer
and Threatens
Him.

esAents and It. WAS due to this tina
he TRIAL 81 the Camorrists for mur
lsY holds the lively interest Of tn
crowd thst occupies every available
square foot In the old church OF Sal
Ff1peisco. When court opened thu
e,srk resumed the reading Of the lonl
lDAietmsnt o. the thirty.six prisoners
and this took up the whole forenoon
tAe nosotoly Of the recital. however
tsane broken BY Interruptions from
taelDrisonsr's cage or By others in the
YooR whose interests were In some
manner involved. When the clerh
rcd the passage referring to the
DYiest, Giro vicozzi. the aged prisoner
vas visibly affected. and at the words
although. never condemned. Vitozz1
,losslly Il ., criminal" he raised his
eyes 70 heaven and murmured: Il
sRsr my su6srinSs to relieve souls In
Dsseatory."
Daring the description Of the muir
ass q oena1ro Cuccolo and his wife
Maria, the Beautiful sorrentina,
NaYisno do .Genarro, who Is charged
VIII having been one Of the actual
stsaesins,, rose from his place in the
seesl pen greatly agitated. The read
ikg clerk paused . moment and the
psasossr. placing his hand over his
heart ana addressing his wife, who
vss among the spectators. said:
Il swear 70 you am innocent"
peioener Bursts Into Tears.
WhA tie words he burst into tears
o. smother occasion De Angels and
AHDolso protested their innocenss and
Aolsndeds redress for having been
fIlsoly Involved by the priest vitozzi.
TAoir arrest wss due to declaration
- the police BY the priest and in
81 Of Erricone, the alleged brains Of
tAs Camorra, When Erricone was
Art arrested vitozzi. who IL his
eodfather, went to the authorities and
With great show Of secrecy confaded
% them that he knew Erricone to
y Innocent for the reason that an
cher, one Ascrittore, had confessed to
HIN that he had committed the double
tgsns. Ascrittore was found to be
aaAsmber Of the Camorra and when
pssesed 10 denounced as the authors
% tie murders de Angels and Amo-
Geo, both criminals and then fugitives
from Justice.
After long search they were ar
rested. De Angels seemed more up
Get BY the accusation than Amodeo
"a, as the former already had been
Sondemned for crimes Of blood, and
II % happened that at the time of
the murder Of the Cuoccolos he had
Q fresh knife cut on the hand and at
his home bloodstained garments were
found. These three men were able to
prove that the priest had sworn false
" and to establish their innocence
q the Cuoccolo crime, but we're held
q members Of the Camorra. In court
they protested vehemently against
haviAg been detained at all, since
tAsfr apprehension was due to asser-
lions BY q fellow prisoner. now known
70 have been false.
ErIicone. whose proper name is En-
rico Aifano. does not take kindly to
aSwspapsr artists. One of the latter
snapped his picture as the prisoners
were brought into court. When the
bandit chief Learned that the photo
graph was for paper hostile to the
CAmorra, he spat In the face of the
1AotcErapher and In q rage swore
eAaA he would kick the man into
~ next world" Erricone's shackels
prevented the execution of this threat.