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file without doing any work or taking
any risks. He lent money at usury,
purchased and received stolen goods,
levied taxes, took an active part in To-
cal politics and municipal elections
and increased his income in several
ways. His speciality consisted in plan
ming burglaries.
It often happened that the Canon
rists cheated Cuocolo and kept a great
part of the booty for themselves, but
Cuocolo had good remedy in such
cases. He merely denounced the
Camorrists to the police and had them
convicted Of the burglary he planned.
One day over four years ago Cuoco-
10 and his wife were murdered. His
body was found on the beach of Tore
del Greco, and on it were forty seven
characteristic stabs and slashes of the
Camorra, while his wife was found
murdered in her house at Naples.
There seemed to be no doubt that the
double murder was a Camorra exc
cution.
The civil police made a mild investi-
cation and made few arrests
Among those who testified in behalf
of the prisoners was a priest who held
the post Of municipal chaplain at the
cemetery, Don Giro Vitozzi. This
priest is Enrico Alfano's godfather,
and Enrico Alamo, nicknamed Erri-
cone, was known to be one Of the
chiefs Of the Camorra. The prisoners
were released and the case was prac-
tcally dropped.
Carabineers Take Case.
A Socialist member of parliament
who did not owe his election to the
Camorra then broadly limited that the
Naples civil police were in league with
the Camorra and suggested that the in
vestigation Of the murder should be
intrusted by the government to the
carabineers, who went at the case Wig
orously. They made some interesting
discoveries.
They found out that on May 26,
1906, secret meeting of the Camorra
was held at Bagnoh which was at
tended by all the chiefs of the ten dis
tricts Of Naples and a couple of Canon
risti from each district. There seem
ed to be no doubt that the Camorrists
assembled to sit as a tribunal and
pass judgment on a traitor. The pun
lshment Of traitor Is always death.
The carabineers then made another
discovery.
On the day the Cuocolo murder was
committed party Of Camorrists as
sembled in small restaurant at Tore
del Greco. where they had supper
late in the evening. The windows of
the restaurant overlooked the beach
where Cuocolo's body was found.
There was nothing eventful about the
supper except that when it was half
through man rushed in with a wild
look on his face and, going up to En-
rico Alamo, whispered something in
his ear. Alamo merely shook hands
with him, and the man left. The Ca
morrists who attended the secret meet
ing at Bagnoi and those who had
supper at Tore del Greco were the
same.
The carabineers succeeding in get
ting hold Of a Camorrist named Alb
batemaggio. who explained many cir
cumstances. Abbatemaggio said that
CuocolO had been murdered because
Camorrist named Luigi Arena, who
was then serving long term of rele-
cation or coerced domicile in the island
of Lampedusa, had denounced him as
a traitor to the tribunal of the Canon
ra. Arena had worked under Cuocolo
and successfully accomplished many
burglaries. and yet Cuocolo had him
sent to prison and supplied the police
with the necessary evidence for his
conviction. Arena wrote to the chiefs
at Naples and exacted Cuocolo's pun
ishment according to the code Of the
honorable society,"
Sentenced to Death.
The chiefs Of the Camorra passed on
Cuocolo the usual sentence of death.
Four Camorrists were charged with
the execution of the sentence. The
death Of Cuocolo's wife had not been
decreed by the Camorra tribunal, but
it was decided on by the murderers
themselves, who feared she would
avenge her husband.
The carabineers then arrested all the
Camorrists with the exception of AL
| fano and two or three Others While
the carabineers were trying to collect
all the evidence possible against the
| prisoners Police Sergeant Petrosino ar
rested Alamo at New York, where he
discovered him at a banquet given in
his honor by the representatives of the
Camorra in Elizabeth street. It is
likely that the murder Of Petrosino
three years later at Palermo was the
Camorra's vengeance for the arrest OF
Enrico Alfano.
About thirty Camorrists were charg
ed with completely in the Cuocolc
crime and active participation in 6
criminal association, while the priest
Don Giro Vitozzi is accused of subor
nation. The Camorrists who will b,
tried at Viterbo number over forty, bu
many other Camorrists arrested by tn,